Mulroney Dermot Quotes & Sayings

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment. — Dermot Mulroney

I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and playing music since childhood. It's what I enjoyed most. — Dermot Mulroney

The way I choose to dress, I want to influence other people around me, I suppose. — Bindi Irwin

It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and I think I got a major muscle thing going on there! But it was good. It was fun. That is one of the things you get to do in film that you don't do, or that I don't do, in real life. I can't speak for Dermot [Mulroney]! But it was fun. — Mia Wasikowska

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that. — Dermot Mulroney

Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white — Frank Zappa

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling. — Dermot Mulroney

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes. — Dermot Mulroney

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it. — Dermot Mulroney

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy. — Bradley Cooper

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that. — Stella Gibbons

There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299) — Edward Jay Epstein

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice. — Dermot Mulroney

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally. — Dermot Mulroney

Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the people. There are a very large number of people here who are on the edge of starvation. For those sort of people - a sizable chunk of people - that service makes them regard Muqtada as a sort of god. — Patrick Cockburn

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong. — James Lipton

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really. — Dermot Mulroney

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next. — Dermot Mulroney

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals. — Dermot Mulroney

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Motherhood (and fatherhood) is one of the most important, while at the same time being one of the most long-time, unappreciated roles we may ever find ourselves in. Add to that, it seems at times to be taken as much for granted by our society at large, as by the developing young we pour our all into. Quality parenting is also wrought with joy and satisfaction at every turn, being one of the most rewarding, and fulfilling experiences we have the opportunity to know in this thing we call the human condition. — Connie Kerbs

My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism. — Tom DeLay

What we have done is unacceptable. — Nevada Barr

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. — Alexander Pope

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually. — Matthew Fox

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job. — Dermot Mulroney

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future. — Dermot Mulroney

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck. — Dermot Mulroney