Top 36 Malcolm Mcdowell Quotes
#1. You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
Malcolm McDowell
#2. The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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#3. The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.
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#4. I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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#5. 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.
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#7. If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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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#10. Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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#11. It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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#12. I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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#13. If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#19. I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
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#21. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
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#22. I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
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#23. Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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#24. I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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#25. The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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#26. Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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#27. 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.
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#29. The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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#30. One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.
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#31. The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
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#32. My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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#33. Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.
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#34. Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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#35. Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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