Wilton Quotes & Sayings

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss. — Penelope Wilton

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend. — Penelope Wilton

I don't really care any longer what other people think. — Penelope Wilton

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen. — Penelope Wilton

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco ... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing. — Mamie Gummer

I call these naughties - just like your Uncle sometimes... — Michael N. Wilton

We have the "spotless Lamb of God" bound up in a human body. This is the One who loved us so much that He was willing to reduce Himself to a human egg. The Immaculate Conception was not just about the epitome of love and grace, it was about the willingness of the Son to travel the journey of the human experience. — Don Wilton

Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your current one out when it's done and forget it, start another, and keep on writing for joy. Words I now live by. Welwyn Wilton Katz — Welwyn Wilton Katz

Be the judge of what is fair and justified to you, and don't take less than what you deserve. — Bryan Wilton

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions. — Penelope Wilton

I'm Cupid. You know, that cute little angel floating around with a tiny bow and arrow. — Patrice Wilton

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go. — Penelope Wilton

Errors in code are what programmers call bugs, though when our programs go wrong, we prefer to call them "unexpected additional features." Very — Paul Wilton

Give it time, I thought. I grow on people; I'm like an industrial solvent, I'll wear you down... — Wilton Barnhardt

Some people will never change. — Penelope Wilton

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book. — Penelope Wilton

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly. — Penelope Wilton

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed. — Penelope Wilton

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? — Penelope Wilton

I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever. — Penelope Wilton

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out. — Penelope Wilton

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women. — Penelope Wilton

Tell me something. Why is everyone so determined to believe Wilton is innocent?"
Surprised, Davies said, "He's a war hero isn't he? Admired by the King and a friend of the Prince of Wales. He's visited Sandringham, been received by Queen Mary herself! A man like that doesn't go around killing people!"
With a wry downturn of his lips, Rutledge silently asked, How did he win his medals, you fool, if not by being so very damned good at killing? — Charles Todd

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. — Welwyn Wilton Katz

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it. — Penelope Wilton

God speaks when you put on your hiking boots, take a walking stick, and abandon yourself to the beauty of God's creation. God speaks when you enter the chapel and find yourself standing in the presence of a mighty God who loves you. God speaks when you just listen. It's as though you can hear God praying! — Don Wilton

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. — Penelope Wilton

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. — Wilton E. Hall

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry. — Penelope Wilton

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs. — Penelope Wilton

Wilton Spencer," she said softly, "why do you have to be so damned smart?"
Spence smiled. "Darned smart," he said; then he wiped her tears away and kissed her on the tip of her nose. — Jackie French Koller

It's so flattering to know that Wilton is a fan of mine, because I've been a big fan of theirs for a long time. I use their products when I bake, and I can't wait to see what ideas we come up with together. — Rosanna Pansino

Don't let pain keep you out of the garden. — Welwyn Wilton Katz

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America. — Penelope Wilton

I have spent my whole life educating myself. — Penelope Wilton

The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully. — Don Wilton

And I'm leaving you that plant," he lamented. "You are good with plants, aren't you?"
Great, I lied. (I could make the Congo wither and die...) — Wilton Barnhardt

You really think love messes everything up?
"Sure do. That's what's so compelling about it. — Wilton Barnhardt

I feel that Wilton Felder and Wayne Henderson have involved themselves so deeply into being Jehovah's Witnesses that Stix Hooper and I have decided we simply cannot tiptoe around them. Now at 53 years old, I am looking forward to the rest of my life. — Joe Sample

I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch. — John Hurt

That's how it goes these days, huh? Moving forward at the sounds of horns on highways, at the cue of traffic signals, turnstiles, tollbooths, ushered and rushed to the next stop on the itinerary, and there are days on the commuter train in the winter when it's got dark early and you can't see out because of the reflection and you might put down your paper or put aside your book and really look at yourself, because amid the noise and the smoke and the strangers and what's become of your life: there you are. — Wilton Barnhardt

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life. — Penelope Wilton

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated. — Penelope Wilton

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it. — Penelope Wilton

Emma, you and your poetry, me and my acting--what are we trying to do? We can't top this city. We poor would-be artists can't compete with or improve on the rich density of human experience on any random, average, slow summer night in New York--who are we trying to kid? In the overheard conversation in the elevator, in the five minutes of talk the panhandler gives you before hitting you for the handout, in the brief give-and-take when you are going out and the cleaning lady is coming in--there are the real stories, incredible, heartbreaking and ridiculous, there are the command performances, the Great American Novels but forever unwritten, untoppable, and so beautifully unaware. — Wilton Barnhardt