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Gene Wilder Quotes

I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor.

Gene Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 11, 1933 - August 29, 2016

Topics

Want Actor Mean Real Wanted Comic

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

Jenny Eclair

People Career Write Solo Only Adore

I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.

John Niven

Day I Am Effort People Know Never

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Owen

Will Evidence Hearing Natural After

The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.

Angus Deaton

People Think Globalization Understand

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Trombone Shorty

Music Respect Me Learn I Can Play

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Life Girl Me Song Isolation You

The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.

Judy Parfitt

Good Good Things You Find Sin Try

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

Janina Gavankar

Life Music Money School College

I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Don McLean

Life Fun Sail Me World Direction

A lot of people are successful in this business because of a catchphrase or athletic ability or charisma or wrestling; Ric Flair is the personification of all of those things, much like his daughter Charlotte, as she is already a multiple-time champion after only a few years in the WWE.

Dolph Ziggler

Business Daughter People Champion

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Derrick Jensen

History Death Civilization Matter

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

Donald Knuth

Good Long Never Things Take Going