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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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
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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.
