Top 40 Michael Higgins Quotes
#1. 'Pitch Perfect 2,' those scenes are super fun. It's just me and John Michael Higgins, and we've been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.
Elizabeth Banks
#2. I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.
Elizabeth Banks
#3. I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.
John Michael Higgins
#4. I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
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#5. I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.
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#6. I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.
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#7. When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
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#9. The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president.
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#11. My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
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#12. I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.
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#13. The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.
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#14. We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
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#15. I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
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#16. I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.
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#17. While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.
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#18. I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care,
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#19. I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young or old and particularly for the Irish abroad. I'm looking forward to it and I think it will be exciting and wonderful.
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#21. The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.
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#22. I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.
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#23. Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
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#24. I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.
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#25. I am very glad as well that it is a presidency built on a campaign that emphasized ideas. I hope it will be a presidency that will enable everybody to be part of and proud of.
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#26. Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.
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#27. I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.
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#28. Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
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#29. I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best to use all of my abilities for all of the people of Ireland.
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#30. Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.
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#31. I'm happy with the vote and the support. I'm very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people.
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#32. Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.
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#34. I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
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#35. Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
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#36. The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.
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#37. An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.
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#38. I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.
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#39. Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
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#40. The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
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