Malcolm Mcdowell Quotes

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself. ~ Malcolm McDowell

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves. ~ Malcolm McDowell

They say that time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession. ~ Malcolm McDowell

The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy. ~ Malcolm McDowell

I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming. ~ Malcolm McDowell

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it. ~ Malcolm McDowell

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret. ~ Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. ~ Malcolm McDowell

I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it. ~ Malcolm McDowell

I loved working with Malcolm [McDowell]. He's been such an important person in my life. I mean, not just as someone I was married to, which is huge, and the father of my children, which is even bigger, but also as a friend and an inspiration and somebody who probably helped to fuel something that all my reading as a child had already started, which was a love of England and the world of the theater over there, which I became involved with through him and probably because of him. ~ Mary Steenburgen

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances. ~ Malcolm McDowell

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. ~ Malcolm McDowell

There are no great scripts - just great films. ~ Malcolm McDowell

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever. ~ Anthony Burgess

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again. ~ Malcolm McDowell

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever. ~ Malcolm McDowell

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. ~ Malcolm McDowell

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do. ~ Malcolm McDowell

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course. ~ Malcolm McDowell

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed. ~ Malcolm McDowell

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place. ~ Malcolm McDowell

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready. ~ Malcolm X

People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today? ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends. ~ Malcolm Bradbury

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man. ~ Malcolm Forbes

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe. ~ Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done. ~ Malcolm D. Lee

Failure is success if you learn from it. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

That was the great misconception about men: because they dealt with money, because they could hire someone on and later fire him, because they alone filled state assemblies and were elected congressional representatives, everyone thought they had power. Yet all the hiring and firing, the land deals and the lumber contracts, the complicated process for putting through a constitutional amendment-these were only bluster. They were blinds to disguise the fact of men's real powerlessness in life. Men controlled the legislatures, but when it came down to it, they didn't control themselves. Men had failed to study their own minds sufficiently, and because of this failure they were at the mercy of fleeting passions; men, much more than women, were moved by petty jealousies and the desire for petty revenges. Because they enjoyed their enormous but superficial power, men had never been forced to know themselves the way that women, in their adversity and superficial subservience, had been forced to learn about the workings of their brains and their emotions. ~ Michael McDowell

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice. ~ Malcolm X

Journalism equals intellectual male prostitution of speech and writing, ~ Malcolm Lowry

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. ~ Malcolm X

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories. If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual ~ Malcolm Gladwell

To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative - to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception - is worse. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive, ~ Janet Malcolm

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us. ~ Malcolm X

Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door. ~ Malcolm X

Situation is. The flight engineer points to the empty fuel gauge, and makes a throat-cutting gesture with his finger.* But he says nothing. Nor does anyone else for the next five minutes. There's radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries ~ Malcolm Gladwell

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left! ~ Malcolm Forbes

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us. ~ Malcolm Wallop

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur. ~ Gough Whitlam

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano? ~ Malcolm Gladwell

It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. ~ Malcolm X

Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact ... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen. ~ Malcolm Forbes

What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

There was Malcolm in the front row, his hand resting on the shoulder of the knight I knew as Poe. I looked at the list of names beneath the photo.
-James Orcutt.
What a ridiculously normal name. I'd half been expecting Darth Vader ~ Diana Peterfreund

When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or the Nose with the Luminous Dong! Or at best, like Clare, "weaving fearful vision" ... A frustrated poet in every man. Though it is perhaps a good idea under the circumstances to pretend at least to be proceeding with one's great work on "Secret Knowledge," then one can always say when it never comes out that the title explains the deficiency. ~ Malcolm Lowry

I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off before."

Ginny eyed the sheriff severely. "Not fourteen-year-old girls who had grandmas like Evelyn Larkin. ~ Michael McDowell

Of course, kids don't always like repetition. Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. At the same time, it can't be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior ... you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. ~ Malcolm X

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

If we think about emotion this way-as outside-in, not inside-out-it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressing emotions and feelings,which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. Psychologists call these people "senders." Senders have special personalities. They are also physiologically different. Scientists who have studied faces, for example, report that there are huge differences among people in the location of facial muscles, in their form, and also-surprisingly-even in their prevalence. "It is a situation not unlike in medicine," says Cacioppo. "There are carriers, people who are very expressive, and there are people who are especially susceptible. It's not that emotional contagion is a disease. But the mechanism is the same. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists ... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid ... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion. ~ Josh McDowell

Drawing conclusions is up to the jury, that is, the readers. My only job is to be talented, that is, to know how to distinguish important testimony from unimportant, to place my characters in the proper light and speak their language. ~ Janet Malcolm

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women. ~ Ellen Malcolm

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

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Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. ~ Malcolm X

And when the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash.6 ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right. ~ Malcolm Forbes

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

But the better answer is that Hotchkiss has simply fallen into the trap that wealthy people and wealthy institutions and wealthy countries - all Goliaths - too often fall into: the school assumes that the kinds of things that wealth can buy always translate into real-world advantages. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS. ~ Malcolm Forbes

What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist ... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason. ~ Malcolm X