Dermot Mulroney Quotes

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

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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

• We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • You
  • Sunday
  • Saying

• I don't know what my next dream role gig is, but I have so, so many shows that I'm like, 'Oh my God, can I guest star on 'New Girl?' Like, that would be amazing!'

  

  Allison Tolman
  • God
  • Dream
  • Girl

• We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Eyes
  • Model
  • Ceiling

• President Obama believes in a level playing field.

  

  Elizabeth Warren

• Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Men
  • Death
  • Heaven

• Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

  

  Solon
  • Learning
  • Wisdom
  • Rich People

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

  

  Dermot Mulroney