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
When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.
Interpretation
Young love can feel all-consuming, but it often changes with time.
This quote highlights the intensity and uniqueness of young love, suggesting that while it may feel like the ultimate love, individuals often experience different kinds of love as they grow and mature. It reflects on the nature of romantic relationships and the evolution of feelings over time, which can lead to various profound connections throughout oneβs life.
In practice
In a discussion about teenage relationships at a school seminar.
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.
But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.
At least you are mine! Soon β in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
God is love, the bishops tell. _x000D_ Yes, I know, But love is hell.
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
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