Michael D. Higgins Quotes
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
-
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
-
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
-
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
-
I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
-
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
-
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
-
Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
-
I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
-
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
-
My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
-
My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
-
As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
-
A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
-
The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
-
To be happy, make other people happy.
-
Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
-
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
-
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.
-
...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
-
The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
-
I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.
-
There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.
-
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
