Logue Quotes & Sayings

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

Moments like these absolve the needs dividing men.
Whatever caught and brought and kept them here
Under Troy's Wall for ten burnt years
Is lost: and for a while they join a terrible equality,
Are virtuous, self-sacrificing, free;
And so insidious is this liberty
That those surviving it will bear
An even greater servitude to its root:
Believing they were whole, while they were brave;
That they were rich, because their loot was great,
That war was meaningful, because they lost their friends. — Christopher Logue

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

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

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

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

Be not too hard
For life is short
and nothing
is given
to man.
Be not to hard
When he is sold and bought
And must manage as best he can.
Be not to hard
For soon he dies
Often no wiser than he began.
Be not too hard
For life
Is short
And nothing is given
to man. — Christopher Logue

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

It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself. — Christopher Logue

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 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

Look north.
Achilles on the rampart by the ditch:
He lifts his face to 90; draws his breath;
And from the bottom of his heart emits
So long and loud and terrible a scream,
The icy scabs at either end of earth
Winced in their sleep; and in the heads that fought
It seemed as if, and through his voice alone,
The whole world's woe could be abandoned to the sky.

An in that instant all the fighting glassed. — Christopher Logue

Come to the edge, he said.
We are afraid, they said.
Come to the edge, he said.
They came to the edge,
He pushed them and they flew.
Come to the edge, Life said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge, Life said.
They came. It pushed them...
And they flew. — Christopher Logue

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

When the fresh patient comes to me the usual query is: "Will I be able to speak like the King?" and my reply is: "Yes, if you will work like he does." [says Lionel Logue] — Mark Logue

Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged and patient study [Lionel Logue said] — Mark Logue

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

It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things. — John 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

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

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

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

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

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

Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew. — Christopher Logue

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

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

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

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

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

Cranberry Catsup — Dick Logue

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

I admit I can still run a mile, [Lionel Logue replied,] though I'm not keen on doing it; and you know you can keep young in spirit if you make friends and keep them — Mark Logue

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

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

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

Those who have slept with sorry in their hearts
Know all too well how short but sweet
The instant of their coming-to can be:
The heart is strong, as if it ever sorrowed;
The mind's dear clarity intact; and then,
The vast, unhappy stone from yesterday
Rolls down these vital units to the bottom of oneself. — Christopher Logue

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create. — Donal Logue

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield. — Donal Logue

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication. — Donal Logue

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced — Christopher Logue

But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze. — Victoria Steele Logue

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by. — 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

Billy offers small hums of agreement and waits for the momma-logue to wind down. — Ben Fountain

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

His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of
Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William
Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief
rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist,
methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society
of friends. — James Joyce

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

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

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed. — Christopher 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. — Eva K. Logue

And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy! — Christopher Logue

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

For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil. — Lisa Logue

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

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. — Christopher 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 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

Unfortunately in the matter of Speech Defects, when so much depends on the temperament and individuality, a case can always be produced that can prove you are wrong. That is why I won't write a book [Lionel Logue concluded] — Mark Logue

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