Malcolm McDowell Quotes
Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words
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If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.
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It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
