Top 100 Roddy Quotes
#1. And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got older
she'd liked them. They were reminders
the back, the knee, the achy wrists
they were even friends: Feel that now, Emer. You're alive.
Roddy Doyle
#2. The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
Roddy Doyle
#3. If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.
Roddy Doyle
#4. My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.
Roddy McDowall
#6. Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?
Roddy Piper
#7. He's as strong as an ox ... and ALMOST as smart!
Roddy Piper
#8. Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.
Roddy Piper
#9. I swooned the first time I saw Charlo. I actually did. I didn't faint or fall on the floor but my legs went rubbery on me and I giggled. I suddenly knew that I had lungs because they were empty and collapsing.
Roddy Doyle
#10. Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead?
Roddy Piper
#11. One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity
Roddy Doyle
#12. Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.
Roddy Woomble
#13. When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
Roddy Doyle
#14. I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.
Roddy McDowall
#15. They ran. They stayed warmer that way and running seemed to be the right way to measure their love for Uncle Ben. They wanted to hear their breath, and their feet stamping the ground. They wanted to feel their lungs working, and their hearts.
Roddy Doyle
#16. It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.
Roddy Doyle
#17. When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'
Roddy Doyle
#18. I've made a living out of music since I was 19, which is something I'm really happy about.
Roddy Woomble
#19. They were joking, but it was a serious conversation. They were often like that, Mary and her granny, when they were alone together.
Roddy Doyle
#20. Do ghosts drink tea?
They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely.
Roddy Doyle
#21. I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.
Roddy Doyle
#22. She was in the book again and, by the time she got to page-turning time again, she'd forgetting I was there.
Roddy Doyle
#23. Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.
Roddy Piper
#24. Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks.
"What're you...the designated driver of my life?"
"Mad Dog House
Mark Rubinstein
#25. I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.
Roddy Doyle
#26. If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.
Roddy Doyle
#27. I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!
Roddy Piper
#28. I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time.
Roddy Woomble
#29. It's the only thing sexier than a sexy woman. A sexy woman cooking fuckin' sausages.
Roddy Doyle
#30. When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
Roddy Doyle
#32. She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.
Roddy Doyle
#33. I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.
Roddy Doyle
#34. Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever ...
Roddy Doyle
#35. Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.
Roddy Doyle
#36. Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
Roddy Doyle
#37. The Black Hole?" Grey asked, incredulously. "Nobody quotes The Black Hole, Dresden. Nobody even remembers that one." "Hogwash. Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, and Roddy McDowall all in the same movie? Immortality.
Jim Butcher
#38. Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?
Roddy Piper
#39. Oh, here he comes now, the May West of pro-wrestling.
Roddy Piper
#40. The colors. The city. Nothing. But they've got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.
Roddy White
#41. I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen
Roddy Doyle
#42. God impressed me with this a long time ago: 'Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!'."
~R. Alan Woods [1998]
R. Alan Woods
#43. She would forever belong to them, a willing slave to their love and desire.
S.R. Roddy
#44. I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.
Roddy Piper
#45. I don't think most people realise the practical problems associated with prostitution; childcare is a major issue, believe me. I wanted to be a good mother. I wanted more than anything to be a good mother. Sweet
Nick Roddy
#46. Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox.
Roddy Piper
#47. Jesus, she said. -Are you in there at all? -I am, Annie, I told her. -Bursting to get out.
Roddy Doyle
#48. Does the tounge hanging out help his balance?
Roddy Piper
#49. Four generations of women
"I'm a woman," Mary said to herself
heading off on a journey in a car. One of the dead, one of them dying, one of the driving, one of them just staring out.
Roddy Doyle
#50. It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
Roddy Doyle
#51. My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
Roddy Doyle
#52. Ric Flair, the Slim Whitman of Pro-Wrestling.
Roddy Piper
#53. Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages.
Roddy Doyle
#54. You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun!
Roddy Piper
#55. It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.
Roddy Doyle
#56. I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am.
Roddy Piper
#57. Roddy how many times have you won a World Championship?
Randy Orton
#58. Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph, until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.
Roddy Doyle
#59. I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
Roddy Doyle
#60. I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
Roddy Doyle
#61. She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.
Roddy Doyle
#62. Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.
Roddy Piper
#63. Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.
Roddy Doyle
#64. I never trust songwriters who talk about what their song is about.
Roddy Woomble
#65. They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.
Roddy McDowall
#66. I'm so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me.
Roddy Piper
#67. If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.
Roddy Woomble
#68. It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Roddy Doyle
#69. The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.
Roddy Doyle
#70. If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
Roddy Doyle
#71. It often seemed that the trees were flu of people whispering
especially tonight.
Roddy Doyle
#72. When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
Roddy Doyle
#73. The problem with being Irish ... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
Roddy Doyle
#74. I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
Roddy Doyle
#75. I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.
Roddy Piper
#76. I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.
Roddy McDowall
#77. Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
Roddy Doyle
#78. Jerry Lawler walks in here with his crown - DA DA DUM - Imperial Margerine - and talks about what he's going to do to me. Lawler, if you think you're going to beat me, if you think you can do ANYTHING to me, than you really are the king. King of FOOLS, jack!!
Roddy Piper
#79. No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.
Roddy Doyle
#80. Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
Roddy Doyle
#81. He mighta spent a couple years under the arena training young wrestlers ...
Roddy Piper
#82. I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
Roddy Doyle
#83. - It's gas but, isn't it? How we get suckered in. Some prick in a white coat says if you eat all o' your peas Gina Lollobrigida will sit on your face.
Roddy Doyle
#84. Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!
Roddy Piper
#86. I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
Roddy Doyle
#87. I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win
Roddy Doyle
#88. It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it.
Roddy Doyle
#89. You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.
Roddy Piper
#90. Everything costs so much - clothes and one's face - and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails - and even gramophone records!' Roddy
Agatha Christie
#91. Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.
Roddy Piper
#92. I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.
Roddy Doyle
#93. Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
Roddy McDowall
#94. I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
Roddy McDowall
#95. She's happier than Nicola. That's probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn't know.
Roddy Doyle
#96. My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.
Roddy Piper
#97. To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.
Roddy Doyle
#98. I'm the reason Hulk Hogan lost his hair.
Roddy Piper
#99. I like patterns in words. I'm not really interested in meaning.
Roddy Woomble
#100. I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.
Roddy Woomble
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