D. W. Wilson Quotes

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

It's how you prioritize in life.

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like.

I'm not very good at lying.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

I feel like everyone's starting to isolate, and that proves itself in a big context like Brexit, and Donald Trump potentially, and putting walls up and stopping people coming in.

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings.

I admire the brazen qualities in people.

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

Irish is a leprechaun language.

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

If you want to hear Him say, 'Well done,' you need to do something well.

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.

Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time under consideration.

I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions and the power inside these atoms that we had the capability to unlock.

I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.

I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.

Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

The fewer desires, the more peace.

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.

Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.

I would say she [Barbara Stanwyck] did her job as best she could; an honest day's work for an honest day's pay - and when it was over, it was over.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.