David Wenham Quotes

I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

David Wenham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: September 21, 1965

Topics

WorkLovePeopleIndustryGotGoing

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

Jessica Lange

WorkGreatMyselfYouSometimes

If there's anything I have learned since returning to Congress, it's that talk is still cheap, progress is still slow, and our liberties continue to erode every day.

Matt Salmon

DayProgressSlowEvery DayTalk

Things I didn't have in the past I try to give to kids. I know how it feels not to have things. We were poor, but we had enough food to eat. It was a big family, four kids, and it was not like you could just go and buy something. But we had the essentials, the food.

Mesut Ozil

FamilyFoodPastEnoughYouKnow

The average customer comes into McDonald's three to four times a month, and I'm absolutely convinced that can fit in very comfortably into a balanced diet.

Steve Easterbrook

DietCustomerMcDonaldThreeMonth

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

Stephen Fry

MyselfGetting OlderI AmBoatNow

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

LifeBelievePressureSatisfaction

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Tom Smothers

PeopleIdeasCensorshipListenRight

Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking moment putting love into it and trying to make it better, and people didn't understand that. You'd want them to.

Travis Kalanick

LifeLoveMomentPeopleBetterYou

The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.

Michelle Carter

WorkFatherBestPreparationMe

When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.

Michelle Dean

SaidCriticsOutLittlePiecesKnew

I drink as much water as I can when I remember.

Miriam Shor

WaterRememberI CanDrinkMuch

Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance.

Mitch McConnell

MenYouDownWrongSeriousWhy

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