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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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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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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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
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Another world is possible, without the 1 percent.
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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!'
