Michael O'Donoghue Quotes & Sayings

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life? — Michael O'Donoghue

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave. — Michael O'Donoghue

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending. — Michael O'Donoghue

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Next. I am afraid --

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I em afred --

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We are out --

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Wee are out --

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Of badgers.

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Of badjurs.

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Would you accept --

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Wud you accept --

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A wolverine --

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A wolver-eene --

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In its place? — Michael O'Donoghue

I am Hollywood's hottest young, middle-aged director, but I'll write out of New York because I don't want to become a salad head. That's what you become out there: a guacamole dip. — Michael O'Donoghue

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge. — Michael O'Donoghue

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects. — Michael O'Donoghue

It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie. — Michael O'Donoghue

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily. — Michael O'Donoghue

You only live once and, usually, not even then. — Michael O'Donoghue

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Next. Hey, Ned exclaimed --

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Ey, Ned asclaimed --

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Let's boil --

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Let's boil --

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The wolverines. — Michael O'Donoghue

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines. — Michael O'Donoghue

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will. — Michael O'Donoghue

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge. — Michael O'Donoghue

I don't think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen's head to explode. — Michael O'Donoghue

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming. — Michael O'Donoghue

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy. — Michael O'Donoghue

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside. — Michael O'Donoghue

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt. — Michael O'Donoghue

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah. — Michael O'Donoghue

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature. — Michael O'Donoghue

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway. — Michael O'Donoghue

Amazing products, cats. And real simple to manufacture. — Michael O'Donoghue

Licorice is the liver of candy. — Michael O'Donoghue

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat. — Michael O'Donoghue

Any good humor is sophomoric. 'Sophomoric' is the liberal word for funny. — Michael O'Donoghue

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects. — Michael O'Donoghue

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from — Michael O'Donoghue

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Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like
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I wud like
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To feed your fingertips
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To feed yur fingerteeps
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To the wolverines. — Michael O'Donoghue

Sometimes you have to be cruel ... in order to be even crueler. — Michael O'Donoghue