Malcolm McDowell Quotes
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
-
When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
-
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
-
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
-
When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
-
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
-
You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
-
If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
-
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
-
You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
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.
-
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
-
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
-
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
-
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
-
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
-
In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.
-
I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
-
The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.
-
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
