Malden Quotes & Sayings

Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight. — Tim DeChristopher

Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order is unending, the continuing and ceaseless work of every generation. — Charles Krauthammer

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy. — Haruki Murakami

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do. — Bill Cosby

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. — Albert Einstein

You can't has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours. — Wil Wheaton

When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore. — Art Buchwald

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long. — Gary Cole

You're like me - you play by the rules right up to the moment they get in the way of your enjoyment. Then you fuck the rules and take your pleasure, and you do it to the fullest. — Jake Malden

It calms me to think of blue as the color of death. I have long imagined death's approch as the swell of a wave - a towering wall of blue. You will drown, the world tells me, has always told me. You will descend into a blue underworld, blue with hungry ghosts, Krishna blue, the blue faces of the ones you loved. They all drowned, too. To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you? If you are in love with red then you slit or shoot. If you are in love with blue you fill your pouch with stones good for sucking and head down to the river. Any river will do. — Maggie Nelson

I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going. — Karl Malden

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando. — Eddie Marsan

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk. — Karl Malden

My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had. — Marv Levy