Mcdowall Co Quotes & Sayings

The infant sucked his lips, his eyes closed, exhausted from the journey. — Melanie Furlong-Riesgo

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

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

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story. — Jimmy Piersall

We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents. — King Naram-Sin Of Chaldea 3800 B.C. Inscription Found On An Ancient Tablet In A Constantinople Meseu

Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

Happiness one last chance to happen? — Jerry Spinelli

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

'Pomona — Alistair McDowall

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

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

I've been on a calendar, but never on time. — Marilyn Monroe

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

With every step I wished myself away to another life, one lived far from here. — Alice Hoffman

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 feel waves of hatred against the stupidity of my era suffocating me. Shit is rising into my mouth , as with a strangulated hernia — Flaubert

The greatest victory is the conquest soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth, He has not opened if for you but out of a desire to make Himself known to you. Do you not know that He is the one who presented the knowledge of Himself to you, whereas you are the one who presented Him with deeds? What a difference between what He brings to you and what you present to Him! — Ibn Ata Allah

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

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done. — Drew Houston

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

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

Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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