Malachy McCourt Quotes

I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

Malachy McCourt

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Country
  • Heart

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Love

• Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Proud
  • Fame
  • Often

• As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Play
  • Said
  • Rules

• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • You
  • Situation
  • Surprise

• I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Need

• I don't really believe in evil at all.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Really

• I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Country
  • Past
  • Problems

• I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Relationship
  • I Can

• No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Good
  • God
  • Truth

• The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Time
  • Good
  • Feeling

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Learning

• Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

  

  Chrysippus
  • World
  • Good
  • Nature

• I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • History

• I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Good
  • Alcoholic
  • Cigarettes