Martin McDonagh Quotes

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

Martin McDonagh

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Money
  • Father

• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Great
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Habits change into character.

  

  Ovid
  • Character
  • Change
  • Habits

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Day
  • Technology
  • Learning

• I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Hate

• I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Real
  • Age
  • Want

• God is everywhere.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • God
  • Everywhere

• If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Know
  • Support

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

  

  Marsha Norman

• Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.

  

  John Ridley
  • Black
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• I've always been happy with my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Body

• Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • America
  • Happy
  • City

• When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

  

  Barbara La Marr
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Happy

• I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Happy
  • Theatre