I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.
Gene WilderRead
I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.
Interpretation
The quote expresses triumph over illness and celebrates life.
Gene Wilder's statement highlights the joy and relief of being in complete remission from illness. It conveys an uplifting message about survival, resilience, and the importance of valuing life, emphasizing the miraculous feeling of being healthy again after a challenging battle.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.
What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.
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