Malcolm McDowell Quotes
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
