Malcolm McDowell Quotes
I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
