Top 100 Mulligan Quotes
#1. Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
Jim Bishop
#2. - 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
#3. I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.
Holliday Grainger
#4. People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner ... I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.
Gabor Szabo
#5. I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.
Andy Kindler
#6. I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.
Claire Danes
#7. The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible.
Paul Theroux
#8. Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley
#9. Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.
Ayn Rand
#10. I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.
Kimberley Nixon
#11. I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
David Bowie
#12. Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
Daisy Ridley
#13. Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive.
Brian Weiss
#14. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
James Joyce
#15. I'd love to hear what confident, intelligent women in the industry have to say: Rachel McAdams, Carey Mulligan, Angelina Jolie, Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey. I would stand in line all day for that panel.
Nina Dobrev
#16. We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.
Bill Crow
#17. 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
#18. Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan
#19. You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
Gerry Mulligan
#20. 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
#22. On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.
Carey Mulligan
#23. 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
#24. With the right key you can bust the door wide open. Because nobody's going to open it for you.
Andy Mulligan
#25. I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Gerry Mulligan
#26. If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.
Tom Mulligan
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!
Carey Mulligan
#30. The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan
#31. Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.
Gerry Mulligan
#32. I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
Carey Mulligan
#33. 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
#34. The score a player reports on any hole should always be regarded as his opening offer.
Tom Mulligan
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
Gerry Mulligan
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Carey Mulligan
#44. 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
#45. What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Gerry Mulligan
#46. It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
Carey Mulligan
#47. We want any effort on our part to be the winning effort. We don't want to be a drop in the bucket, we want to be the entire ocean.
Brennan Lee Mulligan
#48. When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you're trying to think about the person you're acting with and you've got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.
Carey Mulligan
#50. I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
Carey Mulligan
#51. I've never done coke or anything, and I've never played a character who has, so I don't know whether I would actually try coke if I had to play a character who took coke.
Carey Mulligan
#52. Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed
Carey Mulligan
#53. Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan
#54. The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
Gerry Mulligan
#55. I can change my appearance quite easily just by changing my hair. So I can adapt quite well.
Carey Mulligan
#57. The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan
#58. I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
Carey Mulligan
#59. In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
Gerry Mulligan
#60. I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.
Carey Mulligan
#61. It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan
#63. When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier
Carey Mulligan
#64. I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.
Carey Mulligan
#65. People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
Gerry Mulligan
#66. I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
Gerry Mulligan
#67. Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan
#68. Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.
Gerry Mulligan
#69. When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
Gerry Mulligan
#70. If it really made sense to "let the club do the work," you'd just say, "Driver, wedge to the green, one-putt," and walk to the next tee.
Tom Mulligan
#71. I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn't do anything at all, really. I just hung around.
Carey Mulligan
#72. I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!"
Carey Mulligan
#73. The toughest part of acting is never a single thing. It's more like a whole character. I find film really difficult - trying to make it feel like a consistent character when you're filming everything out of order.
Carey Mulligan
#74. It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.
Carey Mulligan
#75. People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.
Gerry Mulligan
#76. I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.
Carey Mulligan
#77. I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.
Carey Mulligan
#78. I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.
Carey Mulligan
#79. 'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
Carey Mulligan
#80. People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.
Carey Mulligan
#81. From Wall Street to Drive was almost a year, when I didn't do anything 'cause there was just nothing that was significantly different from the things I'd done before. There was just nothing to explore.
Carey Mulligan
#82. In a similar vein the author recalls sending an email to a senior music executive in the early 2000's and getting a reply in the post, hand written on a print out of his original email.
Mark Mulligan
#83. I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour!
Carey Mulligan
#84. Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
Carey Mulligan
#85. Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.
Carey Mulligan
#86. If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
Gerry Mulligan
#87. We want a fresh start only because we didn't sufficiently care for the last fresh start.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#88. I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
Carey Mulligan
#89. It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.
Carey Mulligan
#90. I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
Carey Mulligan
#91. The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
Gerry Mulligan
#92. I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.
Carey Mulligan
#93. There was an article in the New York Times that said that young men can't maintain healthy relationships because they're so influenced by pornography and what they see on the screen. It's something to be talked about
Carey Mulligan
#94. There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.
Tom Mulligan
#95. I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
Gerry Mulligan
#96. The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.
Gerry Mulligan
#97. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
Carey Mulligan
#98. A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!
Gerry Mulligan
#99. We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
Carey Mulligan
#100. I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
Carey Mulligan
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