I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.


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There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand...
WILL DURANT
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANT
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
WILL DURANT
Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long wa...
WILL SELF
Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half o...
WILL ADVISE
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the th...
WILL SMITH
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
WILL ROGERS
Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress p...
WILL SMITH
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS
One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.
WILL ADVISE
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who re...
WILL SMITH
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
WILL FERRELL
The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...
WILL SCHWALBE
I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
WILL ROGERS
It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that withou...
GEORGE WILL
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
WILL ROGERS
You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
WILL ROGERS
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANT
Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood...
WILL CUPPY
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than the...
WILL DURANT
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no t...
GEORGE WILL
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
WILL ROGERS
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
WILL ROGERS
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
WILL ROGERS
All I know is just what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS
Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird...
WILL STANTON
Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE WILL
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasa...
GEORGE WILL
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
GEORGE WILL
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r...
WILL DURANT
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
WILL ROGERS
There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.
WILL ROGERS
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
WILL CUPPY