Dermot Mulroney Quotes

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

Dermot Mulroney

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• This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Moving
  • Successful
  • Playing

• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Happy
  • Take
  • Consequences

• When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Know
  • England
  • Meetings

• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Forever
  • Period

• This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Think

• How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • May
  • Control
  • Lost

• I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Friends
  • College
  • Quiet

• It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Forget
  • Easy
  • Noise

• I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Friends
  • Lunch

• Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Two
  • Islam
  • Jews

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Speak
  • Leave
  • Themselves

• I don't mind dating younger men now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Dating

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• You have to be resilient.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • You
  • Resilient

• I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Think
  • Survive
  • Newspapers

• In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • She
  • Together

• What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Change
  • Homeless

• I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Unhappy
  • Thirsty

• One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Night
  • Speak
  • Promise

• Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • House
  • You
  • More

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

  

  David Bowie
  • Quality
  • Rebel
  • Hot

• I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

  

  Dermot Mulroney