Top 100 Donal Quotes
#1. To Donal Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.
Ilana Mercer
#2. [35] Caelum non animum mutant The man who is not content where he is, would never have been content somewhere else, though he might have complained less. Donal Grant, ch. 31
George MacDonald
#3. The other theory is because Donal Trump is not been vetted and no attacks on him have really been tested by Republicans, that is an unknown. He might be a paper tiger if somebody would only go after him.
Joy-Ann Reid
#4. I've come for one of your lasses," Sinclair said again. "A maid - she must be a virgin."
Donal folded his arms over his chest. "What for? Pagan sacrifice?
Lecia Cornwall
#5. But that couldn't be... you don't.... That's wrong," she said lamely.
"You mean morally?" Donal looked utterly struck by the notion. "Morally wrong! Well!" He pretended to ponder and then said earnestly, "I should hope so! Honestly, Jenny-girl, moral sex! Where's the point in that?
Lilia Ford
#6. Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
Donal Henahan
#7. and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a trigger of a shotgun and sending a pellet into a little rabbit's brain as he sniffed the sweet spring air. You couldn't undo it. You couldn't ever take it back.
Donal Ryan
#8. I wish to God I could talk to her the way she wants me to, besides forever making her guess what I'm thinking. Why can't I find the words?
Donal Ryan
#9. Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday.
Donal O'Callaghan
#10. One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.
Donal Logue
#11. To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."
Donal Logue
#12. Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.
Donal Logue
#13. It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
Donal Logue
#14. That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people?
Donal Ryan
#15. [Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.
Donal Henahan
#16. San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.
Donal Logue
#17. My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.
Donal Logue
#18. The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.
Donal Daly
#19. The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
Donal Henahan
#20. I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.
Donal Logue
#21. I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.
Donal Logue
#22. The ways of some things are set, like the courses of rivers or the greenness of grass, or the trouble that follows my daddy, or the hard light of knowing in people's eyes.
Donal Ryan
#23. Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid ... but stay focused.
Donal Logue
#24. It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.
Donal Logue
#25. I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.
Donal Logue
#26. One of my favorite things to do is put my headphones on,blast some good music and just walk my own personal music video
Donal O'Callaghan
#27. With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.
Donal Logue
#28. A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.
Donal Logue
#29. Everybody sees but once in awhile stars glide and hope flickers when you meet someone who see through the person you have for so long pretended to be.
Donal O'Callaghan
#30. I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.
Donal Logue
#31. I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.
Donal Logue
#32. It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
Donal Logue
#33. Sure wasn't I at least the author of my own tale? And if you can say that as you depart this world, you can say a lot.
Donal Ryan
#34. Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.
Donal Daly
#35. I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.
Donal Logue
#36. The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.
Donal Henahan
#37. It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.
Donal Henahan
#38. There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day.
Donal Ryan
#39. The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan
#40. I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written.
Donal Logue
#41. That's the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it's gone. And it's like you were never there.
Donal Ryan
#42. People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.
Donal Ryan
#43. We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.
Donal O'Callaghan
#44. The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.
Donal Logue
#45. Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
Donal Henahan
#46. As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.
Donal Logue
#47. I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.
Donal Logue
#48. No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
Donal Logue
#49. This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.
Donal Logue
#50. Connection was always enough. Not touching. Not talking. Just a feeling that in the world your not alone.
Donal O'Callaghan
#51. Even so, a lie in print looks truer than the truth sounds from the mouth of a fool.
Donal Ryan
#52. I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
Donal Logue
#53. Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.
Donal Logue
#54. It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.
Donal Logue
#55. Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.
Donal Logue
#56. I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.
Donal Logue
#57. Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
Donal Logue
#58. Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil.
Donal Harding
#59. Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't "get" that are part of the problem.
Donal Daly
#60. Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer.
Donal Daly
#61. I've always been in a rush. Ever since I was a child I always thought that there was somewhere else I ought to be even though there was nowhere else I had to go.
Donal O'Callaghan
#62. Some things is easy do, when you have no choice in the world but to do them. Like shiteing into bedpan, in front of a nurse.
Donal Ryan
#63. There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.
Donal Logue
#64. I'm learning that sometimes there are no answers to our questions & sometimes we don't have to understand. Thats part of life and it is ok..
Donal O'Callaghan
#65. The future is a cold mistress. You can give all your life looking to her and trying to catch hold of her but she'll always dance away from your fingertips and laugh back at you from the distance. Them that say they know are liars and thieves.
Donal Ryan
#66. Fiction serves a noble purpose, to oust secrecy, to obliterate shame, to use narrative as a blessed valve to relieve the awful pressure of the pent-up, unspoken pain of existence
Donal Ryan
#67. I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.
Donal Logue
#69. I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
Donal Logue
#70. Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.
Donal Logue
#71. There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.
Donal Logue
#72. You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.
Donal Logue
#73. I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
Donal Logue
#74. The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.
Donal Logue
#75. I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.
Donal Logue
#76. I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child.
Donal Logue
#77. It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.
Donal Henahan
#78. I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.
Donal Logue
#79. I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.
Donal Logue
#80. I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.
Donal Logue
#81. Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented on everything. Nothing was ever done right or cooked right or handed to him properly or ironed straight or finished off fully with him.
Donal Ryan
#82. Somewhere along the way I feel as though I lost my identity and its not like losing a passport it feels more like losing someone so dear to your heart that it pains you everyday to be so unsure if you'll ever see them again or not
Donal O'Callaghan
#83. Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.
Donal Logue
#84. I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
Donal Logue
#85. My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
Donal Logue
#86. I've been lucky enough to go back and forth.
Donal Logue
#87. I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.
Donal Logue
#88. I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in.
Donal Logue
#89. All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.
Donal Ryan
#90. The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.
Donal Logue
#91. I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What's with all the reality, I thought. Does he not know he's a million times cooler in virtual form?
Donal Ryan
#92. Manhattan is full of ghosts most of which confront you late at night while underground
Donal O'Callaghan
#93. Sometimes I look at Daddy, at his side or his back or his face, and I love him so much that it feels like he's a prize I won for doing something brilliant, better than anyone else.
Donal Ryan
#94. Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
Donal Logue
#95. The truth is that it's possible to love someone and not know them
Donal O'Callaghan
#96. Bernadette never went to Mass; she was a fundamentalist Christian. Mother often said she only used religion as a framework for her craziness. She could just as easily have been a Muslim or a Buddhist or a white witch.
Donal Ryan
#97. Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.
Donal Logue
#98. The willingness to reexamine lifelong beliefs because of conflicting data takes enormous courage, and contrasts sharply with recent examples of public discourse in which our political, cultural, and religious leaders have fit data to preconceived theories.
Donal O'Shea
#99. Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.
Donal Henahan
#100. On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.
Donal Henahan
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