Michael Gough Quotes

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

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• I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Money
  • Think
  • Dad

• The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Man
  • Marry

• When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Up
  • You
  • Bible

• While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Long
  • Trust
  • Security

• Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Way
  • Nice

• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Change

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Process
  • Economy
  • Cost

• I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

  

  Kate Burton
  • School
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Years
  • Old
  • Talk

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Artist
  • Weird

• If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Food
  • Fast Food
  • Taco

• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
  • World
  • Feel

• I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Proud
  • Excited
  • Individuals

• I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Change
  • Growth

• I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Play

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Truth
  • Actor
  • Inside

• I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

  

  Winston Duke
  • People
  • Power
  • Color

• As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Information
  • Barbara
  • Overzealous

• I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

  

  Michael Gough
  • Actor
  • Back
  • Essentially