Donal Quotes & Sayings

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid ... but stay focused. — Donal Logue

I'm learning that sometimes there are no answers to our questions & sometimes we don't have to understand. Thats part of life and it is ok.. — Donal O'Callaghan

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager. — Donal Logue

Every day it got swept. All of the dirt each piece of dust and even the tiniest bread crumb of secret midnight snacks. It lay under that rug.
Years went by nobody noticed it's more defeated crumbled appearance with all the misshaped lumps and bumps. Eventually a boy drips and falls over it people are so surprised and nobody knows what why or how it could have happened. Not even the lady with the sweeping brush. — Donal O'Callaghan

I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What's with all the reality, I thought. Does he not know he's a million times cooler in virtual form? — Donal Ryan

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film. — Donal Logue

I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama. — Donal Logue

How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute he says to turn the other cheek, the next minute he's having a big strop and kicking over lads' market stalls. He says blessed are the meek and he goes around shouting and roaring the odds to everyone. He rises from the dead and then shags off a few weeks later and leaves his buddies in the shit. — Donal Ryan

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun. — Donal Logue

[35] Caelum non animum mutant The man who is not content where he is, would never have been content somewhere else, though he might have complained less. Donal Grant, ch. 31 — George MacDonald

Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams. — Donal Daly

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it. — Donal Henahan

I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year. — Donal Logue

To Donal Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great. — Ilana Mercer

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me. — Donal Logue

The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particular direction across the plain. At a given signal from the leader we whirl about, and, with equally firm determination, thunder off in quite a different direction, still in tight parallel formation.
(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie) — Michael Brooks

Fiction serves a noble purpose, to oust secrecy, to obliterate shame, to use narrative as a blessed valve to relieve the awful pressure of the pent-up, unspoken pain of existence — Donal Ryan

You never understood it, did you?" I ask him softly and surprisingly without accusation. "Despite any evidence to the contrary I do love you just as much as I loved him. Everything I would have sacrificed to save him I'll willingly sacrifice for you."
"You don't need to do this to prove you love me," he tells me urgently.
Inexplicably under the circumstances his answer irritates me more than Donal's snort of mocking laughter. "Don't you do that Tulloch Sullivan, don't you try and make this about me trying to prove something. I shouldn't have to prove it. You can feel what I feel even if you don't believe it. I'm trying to save your life, nothing more than that, because you are the only thing that matters to me. — Angela Louise McGurk

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that. — Donal Logue

I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written. — Donal Logue

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. — Donal Henahan

why can't I just want to be me? — Donal Ryan

The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him. — Donal Logue

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television. — Donal Logue

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor. — Donal Logue

I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is. — Donal Logue

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing. — Donal Logue

I've always been in a rush. Ever since I was a child I always thought that there was somewhere else I ought to be even though there was nowhere else I had to go. — Donal O'Callaghan

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist. — Donal Henahan

Sometimes I look at Daddy, at his side or his back or his face, and I love him so much that it feels like he's a prize I won for doing something brilliant, better than anyone else. — Donal Ryan

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all. — Donal Logue

That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people? — Donal Ryan

I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can. — Donal Logue

I wish to God I could talk to her the way she wants me to, besides forever making her guess what I'm thinking. Why can't I find the words? — Donal Ryan

Bernadette never went to Mass; she was a fundamentalist Christian. Mother often said she only used religion as a framework for her craziness. She could just as easily have been a Muslim or a Buddhist or a white witch. — Donal Ryan

The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal. — Donal Daly

Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance. — Donal Henahan

You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots. — Donal Logue

I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure. — Donal Logue

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you. — Donal Logue

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other. — Donal Logue

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young. — Donal Logue

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique ... Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear. — Donal Henahan

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains. — Donal Logue

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies. — Donal Logue

Connection was always enough. Not touching. Not talking. Just a feeling that in the world your not alone. — Donal O'Callaghan

It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming. — Donal Logue

Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer. — Donal Daly

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world. — Donal Logue

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task. — Donal Henahan

I believe hurling is the best of us, one of the greatest and most beautiful expressions of what we can be. For me that is the perspective that death and loss cast on the game. If you could live again you would hurl more, because that is living. You'd pay less attention to the rows and the mortgage and the car and all the daily drudge. Hurling is our song and our verse, and when I walk in the graveyard in Cloyne and look at the familiar names on the headstones I know that their ownders would want us to hurl with more joy and more exuberance and more (as Frank Murphy used to tell us) abandon than before, because life is shorter than the second half of a tournament game that starts at dusk. — Donal Og Cusack

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid. — Donal Logue

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do." — Donal Logue

I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child. — Donal Logue

Manhattan is full of ghosts most of which confront you late at night while underground — Donal O'Callaghan

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship. — Donal O'Callaghan

Micheil growled an oath and shoved through the crowd into the circle. "They're too young to take up fighting," he argued. "No one would accost them."

"Were those lads on the whisky wagon too young to be waving their dirks at brigands armed with claymores, then?"

That stopped Micheil in his tracks. He drew his weapon.

Donal grinned. "That's better. Let's dance, shall we? — Willa Blair

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well. — Donal Logue

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting. — Donal Logue

Sure wasn't I at least the author of my own tale? And if you can say that as you depart this world, you can say a lot. — Donal Ryan

The future is a cold mistress. You can give all your life looking to her and trying to catch hold of her but she'll always dance away from your fingertips and laugh back at you from the distance. Them that say they know are liars and thieves. — Donal Ryan

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid. — Donal Logue

People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect. — Donal Ryan

and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a trigger of a shotgun and sending a pellet into a little rabbit's brain as he sniffed the sweet spring air. You couldn't undo it. You couldn't ever take it back. — Donal Ryan

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. — Donal Henahan

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals. — Donal Logue

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent. — Donal Logue

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment. — Donal Logue

The ways of some things are set, like the courses of rivers or the greenness of grass, or the trouble that follows my daddy, or the hard light of knowing in people's eyes. — Donal Ryan

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches. — Donal Logue

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there. — Donal Logue

I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in. — Donal Logue

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece. — Donal Logue

There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life. — Donal Logue

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg. — Donal Henahan

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out. — Donal Logue

But that couldn't be... you don't.... That's wrong," she said lamely.

"You mean morally?" Donal looked utterly struck by the notion. "Morally wrong! Well!" He pretended to ponder and then said earnestly, "I should hope so! Honestly, Jenny-girl, moral sex! Where's the point in that? — Lilia Ford

Somewhere along the way I feel as though I lost my identity and its not like losing a passport it feels more like losing someone so dear to your heart that it pains you everyday to be so unsure if you'll ever see them again or not — Donal O'Callaghan

I've come for one of your lasses," Sinclair said again. "A maid - she must be a virgin."
Donal folded his arms over his chest. "What for? Pagan sacrifice? — Lecia Cornwall

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive. — Donal Henahan

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were. — Donal Logue

As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot. — Donal Logue

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea. — Donal Logue

All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true. — Donal Ryan

One of my favorite things to do is put my headphones on,blast some good music and just walk my own personal music video — Donal O'Callaghan

May Lacey, wisps of thin grey hair appearing from under her hat, her scarf still around her neck, sat opposite Nora in the back room and began to talk. After a while, the boys went upstairs; Conor, when Nora called him, was too shy to come down and say good night, but soon Donal came and sat in the room with them, carefully studying May Lacey, saying nothing. — Colm Toibin

Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film. — Donal Logue

Some things is easy do, when you have no choice in the world but to do them. Like shiteing into bedpan, in front of a nurse. — Donal Ryan

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. — Donal Henahan

I began to mourn the simplicity of my childhood, the warmth of my family that now seemed lost, years had passed by and we had all been weathered by the world. At times all I could see in their eyes was the reflection of loneliness in the longing we had for each other but there was always that glint of bitterness because they never really forgive you for leaving them do they? — Donal O'Callaghan

They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life who chose instead their life: spite and bitterness and age-fogged glasses of watery whiskey in dark, cobwebbed country bars, shit-smeared toilets, blood-streaked piss, and early death. He could have helped it but didn't. They couldn't help it and loved him for being worse than them. He was the king of the wasters. — Donal Ryan

As they walked through the armory, Ghost sniffed at them, his tail upraised and bristling. My brothers. The Night's Watch needed leaders with the wisdom of Maester Aemon, the learning of Samwell Tarly, the courage of Qhorin Halfhand, the stubborn strength of the Old Bear, the compassion of Donal Noye. What it had instead was them. — George R R Martin

I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons. — Donal Logue

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage. — Donal Logue

That's the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it's gone. And it's like you were never there. — Donal Ryan

The willingness to reexamine lifelong beliefs because of conflicting data takes enormous courage, and contrasts sharply with recent examples of public discourse in which our political, cultural, and religious leaders have fit data to preconceived theories. — Donal O'Shea

San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles. — Donal Logue

Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented on everything. Nothing was ever done right or cooked right or handed to him properly or ironed straight or finished off fully with him. — Donal Ryan

I've been lucky enough to go back and forth. — Donal Logue

This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater. — Donal Logue