Mcdowall Quotes & Sayings

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time. — Roddy McDowall

The Black Hole?" Grey asked, incredulously. "Nobody quotes The Black Hole, Dresden. Nobody even remembers that one." "Hogwash. Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, and Roddy McDowall all in the same movie? Immortality. — Jim Butcher

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella. — June Foray

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed. — Wayne Coyne

Ally McCoist, Kenny McDowall, Ian Durrant, Jim Stewart - all fantastic people. It is still a brilliant club for me, although technically it is now a new club — Terry Butcher

The letters that say 'I'm getting the messages you're sending me through the television screen' are not great. But those are few and far between, thank God. I get wonderful letters, and people send me artwork. — Stephen Colbert

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt. — Dan Rather

I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and would do these portraits of celebrities. Then he would get another well-known person to write a thing. He photographed me when I was 15 or 16, and he got Jason Robards to write the thing because he was sort of my mentor. And Roddy would invite me to these dinner parties that were insane. Like, Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen O'Hara and people that were just crazy. I still can't really believe that I met them. — Winona Ryder

All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else. — Roddy McDowall

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York. — Roddy McDowall

And I will sing how sad Proserpina Unto a grave and gloomy Lord was wed, And lure the silver-breasted Helena Back from the lotus meadows of the dead, So shalt thou see that awful loveliness For which two mighty Hosts met fearfully in war's abyss! And — Oscar Wilde

Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death. — Roddy McDowall

I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow."

'Pomona — Alistair McDowall

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering,
blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conicts of today. — Arundhati Roy

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job. — Roddy McDowall

Courage is fear that prays. — Paulo Coelho

When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero. — Seann William Scott

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York. — Roddy McDowall

And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. — Roddy McDowall

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child. — Roddy McDowall

What do you want from me? Am I to be some tool that people use to do magic? Is that my purpose in life?" "No, of course not!" Blaise protested, pushing away an unwelcome tendril of guilt. In a way, that had been exactly what he had originally intended for Gala, but she wasn't supposed to be a person, with the feelings and emotions of a human being. — Dima Zales

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday. — Roddy McDowall

Fools are more hard to conquer than persuade. — John Dryden