Top 68 Logue Quotes
#1. When the fresh patient comes to me the usual query is: "Will I be able to speak like the King?" and my reply is: "Yes, if you will work like he does." [says Lionel Logue]
Mark Logue
#2. I admit I can still run a mile, [Lionel Logue replied,] though I'm not keen on doing it; and you know you can keep young in spirit if you make friends and keep them
Mark Logue
#3. Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged and patient study [Lionel Logue said]
Mark Logue
#4. Billy offers small hums of agreement and waits for the momma-logue to wind down.
Ben Fountain
#5. Unfortunately in the matter of Speech Defects, when so much depends on the temperament and individuality, a case can always be produced that can prove you are wrong. That is why I won't write a book [Lionel Logue concluded]
Mark Logue
#6. 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
#7. My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.
Donal Logue
#8. 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
#9. 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
#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. It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.
John Logue
#13. I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.
Donal Logue
#14. I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.
Donal Logue
#15. Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid ... but stay focused.
Donal Logue
#16. It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.
Donal Logue
#17. I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.
Donal Logue
#18. A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
Eva K. Logue
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
Donal Logue
#22. But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.
Victoria Steele Logue
#23. San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.
Donal Logue
#24. I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
Donal Logue
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head.
Christopher Logue
#31. 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
#32. I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written.
Donal Logue
#33. Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.
Christopher Logue
#34. 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
#35. It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
Donal Logue
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.
Donal Logue
#45. I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
Donal Logue
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#50. For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil.
Lisa Logue
#51. Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew.
Christopher Logue
#52. 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
#53. I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.
Donal Logue
#54. Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.
Donal Logue
#55. It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.
Donal Logue
#56. Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.
Donal Logue
#57. And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!
Christopher Logue
#58. It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.
Christopher Logue
#59. Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
Donal Logue
#60. The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.
Donal Logue
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I've been lucky enough to go back and forth.
Donal Logue
#64. 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
#65. I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
Donal Logue
#66. 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
#67. I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.
Donal Logue
#68. 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
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