I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.


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The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were ...
MARA WILSON
The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Eve...
MARA WILSON
Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're tal...
MARA WILSON
'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to wa...
MARA WILSON
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppos...
MARA WILSON
I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because ...
MARA WILSON
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren...
MARA WILSON
Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased o...
MARA WILSON
If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into som...
MARA WILSON
I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rathe...
MARA WILSON
I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprai...
MARA WILSON
I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've b...
MARA WILSON
People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison ...
MARA WILSON
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting wa...
MARA WILSON
I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Ho...
MARA WILSON
I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed imag...
MARA WILSON
I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
ANN WILSON
My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on ...
RUSSELL WILSON
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the b...
WOODROW WILSON
I believed that I could go to the Super Bowl and win multiple Super Bowls and do all of those things...
RUSSELL WILSON
I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little sc...
REBEL WILSON
Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ...
COLIN WILSON
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
SANDY WILSON
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi...
WOODROW WILSON
Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox kn...
COLIN WILSON
If you steal from one author, its plagiarism. If you steal from two, its research.
WILSON MIZNER
The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or any...
DENNIS WILSON
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON
The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and def...
WOODROW WILSON
He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
EARL WILSON
Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
EARL WILSON
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
EARL WILSON
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
EARL WILSON
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
EARL WILSON
To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
EARL WILSON