Thurber, James Filmography

• The Best Government Money Can Buy?
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University

Thurber, James Filmography

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  2013, role: writer
• Public Speaking
  2010, role: actor
• A Unicorn in the Garden
  2009, role: writer
• Mr. Pringle Gets Rid of His Wife
  2008, role: writer
• El señor Preble se libra de su mujer
  2003, role: writer
• Hochu lunu
  1984, role: writer
• The Greatest Man in the World
  1980, role: writer
• The War Between Men and Women
  1972, role: writer
• Alice of Wonderland in Paris
  1966, role: writer
• Cilali Ibo rüyalar aleminde
  1962, role: writer
• Der Mann im Manne
  1959, role: writer
• The Battle of the Sexes
  1959, role: writer
• Goodyear Theatre
  1957, role: writer
• The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl
  1955, role: writer
• The Unicorn in the Garden
  1953, role: writer
• She's Working Her Way Through College
  1952, role: writer
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  1947, role: writer
• The Male Animal
  1942, role: writer
• Rise and Shine
  1941, role: writer

Famous quotes by James Thurber:

"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."

"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

"Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person."

"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."

"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."

"Don't get it right, just get it written"

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."

"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."

"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

"My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language."

"A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."

"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"

"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."