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Michael Wincott Quotes

I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.

Michael Wincott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 21, 1958

Topics

Love Romantic Me Sweet Story Play

I tell folks when I walk into a room, when I leave, you may not like me - you may not agree with me - but by golly, you will not misunderstand where I am. I get things done.

Walk I Am Me You Done Will

As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.

You Sitting Actor Take Working Just

I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been.

Mary Kay Andrews

House Always Been Obsessed Voyeur

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.

Martin Seligman

Friendship Love Relationship People

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

Women Art Me Impact Feel Young

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.

More Satire Something Seems Like

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

Education Help Legislative Successful

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.

Time Myself Job Process Trying Same

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Douglas Trumbull

Helmet Mood Fields Affect Who Your

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Douglas Coupland

Failure Opportunity You Sometimes

We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things together. We always had dessert, even if it was just Jell-O. So, I never knew I was poor.

Family Together Rich You Poor Never

'Jaws' was the first A-list picture that was released like an exploitation picture. They made a lot of money with that picture because they could save a lot of money on advertising. Instead of having a full-page ad in 'The New York Times' for one theater, they had it for 100 theaters.

Peter Bogdanovich

Money New York Advertising Picture

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