Jack Wild famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
-- Jack Wild

#Cancer #Mouths #Heard
I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
-- Jack Wild

#Talking #Careers #Over You
My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
-- Jack Wild

#Bombs #Lifestyle #Made
There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
-- Jack Wild

#Buzz #Performing #Audience
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
-- Jack Wild

#Roots #Would Be #Way
I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
-- Jack Wild

#Made #Graves #Mark
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
-- Jack Wild

#Immature #Wish #Age
I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.
-- Jack Wild

#Children #Long #Adults
It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
-- Jack Wild

#Thinking #People #Fame

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.
If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
If you really like someone, it doesn't matter what their mouth feels or tastes like. The kiss is still awesome.
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

Jack Wild famous quotes

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