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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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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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.
