The Wizard Quotations

I don't have economic pressure anymore. ... You know, there will be a single mother out there who will understand nothing means more to me than the fact I don't have to worry about (money) anymore because it's a difficult way to live.

kind of made my life difficult, because my script was around before they came around and they had a lot of bigger clout attached to it.

I was completely thrilled. I was just really happy. She's just a wonderful, wonderful collaborator. She's a really good actress and a genuinely nice person and that's a rare thing. She works incredibly hard -- she's in virtually every scene.

That's the scary part. I didn't know if I should smile, crack up, scream or run.

We can argue forever what personhood means, but there is no empirical or logical way to prove it. It's the beginning of the argument, not the endpoint.

Wizard of Oz: You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow instead of 20 years from now.

beyond about March 2004 if it chose not to keep individual units deployed to Iraq for longer than one year without relief.

Dorothy: Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk.

feel a certain sense of rejection and inadequacy. I was doing everything I was told to do. It couldn't all have been because I had the wrong lapel pin. I just felt like I couldn't get in. I could not make myself visible.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

Auntie Em: For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!

It's kinda weird -- it's not really our scene but I'll take it,

You try to do everything the director wants and try to make the actors comfortable,'' Treglown said.

The Bad Pants Open has become a tradition at Indian Lakes Resort, ... It's the only golf outing in which the participants' pants matter more than their score. All participants are required to wear ugly golf pants. The winner of the ugliest golf pants will be inducted into the Bad Pants Hall of Fame.

It's a metaphor for our culture. This is where we get a lot of images we use in popular culture.

I'm on my third Mrs. Potts' costume,'' Treglown said.

If you're working in a restaurant, you can't play at being a waitress. Food gets to the table or it doesn't, and you're paid to get it there. It's a straightforward exchange. Now (in Bait and Switch ), I entered a world where so much depends on your personality and self-presentation. I found that very murky.

Close you eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home.