Walter Mitty Quotes

• As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Fighting, Doctors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.

  Tom Hardy

  Character, Imagination, Bits

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

  James Caan

  Cowboy, Cells, People

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.

  Owen Wilson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Connections

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Skills, Effort, Investing

  Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf (2014). “The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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