Mike O'Malley Quotes

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

Mike O'Malley

• Thinking
• Character
• Television

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• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Time
  • Live
  • Character

• My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Different
  • Science
  • Political

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Character

• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Character
  • Understanding

• I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Important
  • Character
  • Me

• We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Society
  • Morning

• Can you look at a flower without thinking?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Thinking
  • Flower

• It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

  

  Alfred Jodl
  • Character
  • Action
  • Single

• She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • She
  • Character
  • Powerful

• The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Character
  • Car

• I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Character
  • City
  • Identity

• My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I'm saying at this moment. I don't know. It's not something I'm obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • World
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.

  

  Nainoa Thompson
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Future

• The world is one big data problem.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • World
  • Problem
  • Data

• If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • World
  • Different
  • Country

• I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

  

  Mike O'Malley
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Television