Mulligan And O'hare Quotes

#1. Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Gerry Mulligan

#2. You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

Carey Mulligan

#3. My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

Carey Mulligan

#4. The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.

Carey Mulligan

#5. I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

Carey Mulligan

#6. This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.

Gerry Mulligan

#7. Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

Gerry Mulligan

#8. - He can't wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror. Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.

James Joyce

#9. It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.

Carey Mulligan

#10. You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

Gerry Mulligan

#11. Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

Carey Mulligan

#12. Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

Carey Mulligan

#13. The score a player reports on any hole should always be regarded as his opening offer.

Tom Mulligan

#14. I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Carey Mulligan

#15. I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

Carey Mulligan

#16. Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

Carey Mulligan

#17. The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

Gerry Mulligan

#18. I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

Carey Mulligan

#19. With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.

Carey Mulligan

#20. I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.

Carey Mulligan

#21. If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

Tom Mulligan

#22. Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Jim Bishop

#23. I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

Gerry Mulligan

#24. With the right key you can bust the door wide open. Because nobody's going to open it for you.

Andy Mulligan

#25. If you're walking down the street in L.A., people do sort of look at you like you're a hooker because it's so rare to see someone just walking.

Carey Mulligan

#26. On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

Carey Mulligan

#27. In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Gerry Mulligan

#28. There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

Tom Mulligan

#29. You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

Gerry Mulligan

#30. Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

Gerry Mulligan