Malcolm McDowell Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.
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My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I get hired because I improvise well.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
