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Wife Quotes

"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."

Will Rogers, American Actor

"If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing."

Edward Burnett Tylor, English Scientist

Wife, Man, Writing

"I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife."

Joan Collins, American Actress

Wife, Husband, Man

"I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'"

Samuel L. Jackson, American Actor

Wife, Daughter, Day, Name

"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."

Anthony Anderson, American Actor

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

Wife, Successful, Man, Woman

"Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore."

Jessica Hahn, American Celebrity

"I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her."

Kent McCord, American Actor

Wife, Decisions, Woman

"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

"Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong."

Ben Folds, American Musician

Wife, Day, Man, Old

"Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect."

Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian Composer

Wife, Son, Respect, Will

"I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly."

Sean Connery, Scottish Actor

Wife, Chance, English, Golf

"The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife."

Robert Duvall, American Actor

Wife, Battle, Israel, Man

"It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else."

Ismail Merchant, Indian Producer

Wife, Fame, Man, Writing

"As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything."

Boris Kodjoe, Austrian Actor

Wife, Daughter, Talk

"And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it."

Mel Tillis, American Musician

"My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious."

Leonard Nimoy, American Actor

Wife, Temple, Religious, Spiritual

"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window."

Burton Rascoe, American Critic

"You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that."

Boris Kodjoe, Austrian Actor

Wife, Kids, Want

"When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany."

Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian Celebrity

Wife, Thought, Germany, Want

"Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore."

Wild Bill Hickok, American Celebrity

Wife, Enemies, Name, Will

"I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there."

Bryan Ferry, English Musician

"I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children."

Charles Bronson, American Actor

Wife, Children, Friends

"Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that."

James M. Barrie, British Playwright

Wife, Man, Smiles

"My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic."

Evel Knievel, American Entertainer

"Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them."

Dan Castellaneta, American Actor

"I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show."

Ernie Wise, English Comedian

"With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife."

Eugene Ormandy, American Musician

"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings."

Stevie Nicks, American Musician

Wife, Artist, Focus, Kids

"I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion."

Don Adams, American Comedian

Wife, Name, Quick, Study

"I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll."

Eli Wallach, American Actor

Wife, Baby, First, Years

"My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

"My wife thinks I'm completely mad."

Malcolm Williamson, Australian Composer

"We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son."

Dave Lombardo, Cuban Musician

Wife, Son, Baby, First

"Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers."

Jessica Alba, American Actress

"Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private."

Francesca Annis, English Actress

"Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

"I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression."

Tom Glazer, American Musician

Wife, College, Depression, Jobs

"It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films."

Vin Diesel, American Actor

Wife, Deals, Film, Loss

"I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

Wife, Old, Woman

"We have two kids, my wife and myself."

Thelonious Monk, American Musician

"I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky."

Ian Hart, English Actor

Wife, Kids, Years

"I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

Wife, Career, First, Kids

"My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album."

Jerry Goldsmith, American Composer

"No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner."

Thomas R. Dewar, American Distiller

Wife, Husband, Gambling

"Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors."

Fritz Kreisler, Austrian Composer

Wife, Colors, Day, Duty

"There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband."

Clifford Odets, American Playwright

Wife, Husband, Quotes

"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Wife, Fortune, Man

"Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!"

Derek Luke, American Actor

"My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season."

Martin Milner, American Actor

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