Romany Malco (Romany Romanic Malco Jr.) Quotes
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
Quotes to Explore
-
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
-
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
-
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
-
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
-
I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
-
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
-
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
-
My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
-
I think that our comfort is in our history.
-
All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
-
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
-
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
-
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
-
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
-
It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
-
I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
-
I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
-
I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
-
It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
-
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
-
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.
-
The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
-
I'm not really much of a video game player; my son would be the expert in that department. The only game I would really play is golf, the Tiger Woods video game.
-
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
