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 you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.
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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.
