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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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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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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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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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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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.
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Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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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.
