Dermot Quotes & Sayings

Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?" "It's very much like photography really," said Dermot. "Quite a good comparison of yours. — Agatha Christie

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment. — Dermot Mulroney

I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and playing music since childhood. It's what I enjoyed most. — Dermot Mulroney

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon. — Dermot Davis

It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and I think I got a major muscle thing going on there! But it was good. It was fun. That is one of the things you get to do in film that you don't do, or that I don't do, in real life. I can't speak for Dermot [Mulroney]! But it was fun. — Mia Wasikowska

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that. — Dermot Mulroney

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure. — Dermot Healy

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people. — Dermot Healy

Could the entire notion of finding one's soul mate be a simple case of looking for ourselves in another body? Is the "soul mate" really just the best approximation of ourselves that we can find? — Dermot Davis

Guys get a bad rap for not wanting to talk about their feelings but maybe women are in part to blame for that. One thing that I learned from working with people where English was not their first language was this: just because they don't speak your language doesn't mean that they're dumb. Maybe we just need to talk more slowly, use simpler words and have lots more patience. — Dermot Davis

The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry — Dermot McCabe

Crazy people love their Kindles. — Dermot Davis

...and he suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight ahead into an empty space till slowly we returned into view. I can make small talk, he said slowly, I can do that but out of the corner of my eye I can see the dark approaching. — Dermot Healy

Jesus. I had a dream last night too.
You had.
I dreamt that my Grandma had just died yesterday.
Dear God.
And she had died long before I was born.
He looked at me with astounded eyes, and felt his neck, and then he patted my knee. Aisy son, he said.
Why did I dream her?
Because you never met her. The dead you never met die a little bit every day in your head. — Dermot Healy

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling. — Dermot Mulroney

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes. — Dermot Mulroney

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally. — Dermot Mulroney

My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.' — Natascha McElhone

Dermot studied the backs of his hands. "I always loved her." He placed them flat on his knees. "But I've been less lonely since she's gone. — Catherine O'Flynn

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice. — Dermot Mulroney

Dermot, who I would never sleep with, not in a million years. Not even if we were characters in Game of Thrones. — R.K. Lilley

Dermot found me; bad news inexorably does. Let me reiterate, bumping into Pope Pius XIII would have surprised me less. In fact, His Infallibility would have blended in better — David Mitchell

You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it. — Dermot O'Leary

It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread. — Dermot Davis

In his mature works from Ideas I, notably the Cartesian Meditations (1931), Husserl presented his approach as a radicalization of Descartes' project that sought to return knowledge to a foundation in the certainty of subjective experience (cogito ergo sum). — Dermot Moran

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really. — Dermot Mulroney

For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo. — Charlaine Harris

How shall we go about this? Dermot asked. He was blond and Claude was dark; the looked like gorgeous bookends. — Charlaine Harris

There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them. — Dermot Healy

What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without. — Dermot Davis

The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it's a winner's trifecta and you'll be rich beyond your dreams. — Dermot Davis

You have a nice day, you hear? — Charlaine Harris

We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.'
That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me - or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unfamiliar comfort. I was with family. I was with blood.
And I slept. — Charlaine Harris

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next. — Dermot Mulroney

It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins. — Dermot Healy

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck. — Dermot Mulroney

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were. — Dermot Bolger

It's literally murder on the dancefloor. — Dermot O'Leary

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots. — Dermot Davis

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future. — Dermot Mulroney

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you — Dermot Healy

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job. — Dermot Mulroney

Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself — Simon Hughes

It's called Two and a Half Men," Dermot was telling his guest.
"I understand," Bellenos said. "Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn't."
"I think so," Dermot said. "Don't you think the son is useless?"
"The half? Yes. At home, we'd eat him," Bellenos said. — Charlaine Harris

Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life. — Dermot Davis

Are you having performance issues?" I asked in surprise. "Bite your tongue," Vlad said, with a snort. "I was seeing if Dermot understood sign language, but from the look on his face, it seems not. — Jeaniene Frost

I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe. — Dermot Bolger

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals. — Dermot Mulroney

The entrepreneur must structure the challenges and milestones for each stepping-stone in order to provide the proof required by the likely investor in the subsequent stage. In — Dermot Berkery

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it. — Dermot Mulroney

Women want a lot of sex with the man they love; men want to have a lot of sex with a lot of different women. — Dermot Davis

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. — Dermot Healy

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh. — Seamus Heaney