Roddy Quotes & Sayings

I've made a living out of music since I was 19, which is something I'm really happy about. — Roddy Woomble

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day. — Roddy Doyle

My business in the beginning was very lawless and the more trouble I go into, the more the promoters liked me back then. I was on the front page for doing something wrong, the arena was full. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed somehow and they put rules in. You put rules in a gunfight? I'm not so good at following those rules. I don't' know what will happen at WrestleMania. — Roddy Piper

Jesus, she said. -Are you in there at all? -I am, Annie, I told her. -Bursting to get out. — Roddy Doyle

I never trust songwriters who talk about what their song is about. — Roddy Woomble

Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph, until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job. — Roddy Doyle

I cried, a bit, as a spoke to Belinda on my mobile phone, in a quiet corner, perhaps the only quiet corner in Jaipur. I told her how I'd hoped Paul would read the forward, that he'd read how much I admired his work and how much I admired him, how much I just plain liked him and loved him. But, even as I spoke, I knew: Paul had always known that. He'd seen in on my face every time we met. What made me cry was the obvious, stupid fact that we'd never meet again. — Roddy Doyle

They ran. They stayed warmer that way and running seemed to be the right way to measure their love for Uncle Ben. They wanted to hear their breath, and their feet stamping the ground. They wanted to feel their lungs working, and their hearts. — Roddy Doyle

And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got older
she'd liked them. They were reminders
the back, the knee, the achy wrists
they were even friends: Feel that now, Emer. You're alive. — Roddy Doyle

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand. — Roddy Doyle

Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages. — Roddy Doyle

If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends. — Roddy Doyle

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. — Roddy Doyle

( ... )Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol?"
"No," Jason said dryly. "She told him that if he made one more improper advance to her, she would shoot him- and if she missed, she would turn Wolf loose on him. And if Wolf didn't finish the job, she had every faith I would." Jason chuckled and shook his head. "It's the first time I've been nominated for the role of hero. I was a little crushed, however, to be second choice after the dog. — Judith McNaught

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide. — Roddy Piper

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones. — Roddy Doyle

Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running. — Roddy Piper

The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths. — Roddy Doyle

I'm so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me. — Roddy Piper

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do. — Roddy Doyle

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun! — Roddy Piper

She would forever belong to them, a willing slave to their love and desire. — S.R. Roddy

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

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican. — Roddy Doyle

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted. — Roddy Doyle

The problem with being Irish ... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. — Roddy Doyle

I remember I wanted to get away; I wanted to run. I couldn't stand any more. But I didn't want to run. I wanted everything to be perfect; everything was going to be great - I just had to be careful. I was responsible for it all. The clouds coming, I was dragging them towards us; my thoughts were doing it. I was ruining everything. It was up to me. I could control the whole day. All I had to do was make sure that I made no stupid mistakes. Don't walk on the cracks. Don't look at the clouds. It's up to you. — Roddy Doyle

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. — Roddy Doyle

Everything costs so much - clothes and one's face - and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails - and even gramophone records!' Roddy — Agatha Christie

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. — Roddy Doyle

I like naming characters. — Roddy Doyle

Do ghosts drink tea?
They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely. — Roddy Doyle

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

Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks.
"What're you...the designated driver of my life?"

"Mad Dog House — Mark Rubinstein

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. — Roddy Doyle

Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid? — Roddy Piper

Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something? — Roddy Piper

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. — Roddy Doyle

Does the tounge hanging out help his balance? — Roddy Piper

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. — Roddy Doyle

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them. — Roddy Doyle

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen — Roddy Doyle

Terror. That was it. — Roddy Doyle

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' — Roddy Doyle

He mighta spent a couple years under the arena training young wrestlers ... — Roddy Piper

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop. — Roddy Doyle

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. — Roddy Doyle

She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind. — Roddy Doyle

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 was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win — Roddy Doyle

Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox. — Roddy Piper

Ever notice Hulk Hogan ain't got no hair on his chest? The only one who's got hair on their chest on their team is Cindy Lauper. — Roddy Piper

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads. — Roddy Doyle

Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female? — Roddy Piper

Jerry Lawler walks in here with his crown - DA DA DUM - Imperial Margerine - and talks about what he's going to do to me. Lawler, if you think you're going to beat me, if you think you can do ANYTHING to me, than you really are the king. King of FOOLS, jack!! — Roddy Piper

Her granny was asleep and Mary knew it was special, this trip. It was something that hadn't been planned. It was actually impossible. Four generations of women
"I'm a woman," Mary said to herself
heading off on a journey in a car. One of them dead, one of them dying, one of them driving, one of them just starting out. — Roddy Doyle

I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum. — Roddy Piper

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do. — Roddy Doyle

I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera. — Roddy Piper

I don't think most people realise the practical problems associated with prostitution; childcare is a major issue, believe me. I wanted to be a good mother. I wanted more than anything to be a good mother. Sweet — Nick Roddy

I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am. — Roddy Piper

-I love yeh, son, said Jimmy Sr.
He could say it and no one could hear him, except young Jimmy, because of the singing and roaring and breaking glasses.
-I think you're fuckin' great, said Jimmy Sr.
-Ah fuck off, will yeh, said Jimmy Jr. -Packie saved the fuckin' penalty, not me.
But he liked what he'd heard, Jimmy Sr could tell that. He gave Jimmy Sr a dig in the stomach.
-You're not a bad oul' cunt yourself, he said. — Roddy Doyle

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

Mary,' said her mother. 'We don't like sarcasm '
'You mightn't like it,' said Mary. 'But I love it. — Roddy Doyle

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. — Roddy Doyle

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk. — Roddy Doyle

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

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world. — Roddy Doyle

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it. — Roddy Doyle

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before. — Roddy Doyle

- It's gas but, isn't it? How we get suckered in. Some prick in a white coat says if you eat all o' your peas Gina Lollobrigida will sit on your face. — Roddy Doyle

One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity — Roddy Doyle

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper! — Roddy Piper

Ric Flair, the Slim Whitman of Pro-Wrestling. — Roddy Piper

Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it. — Roddy Piper

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty. — Roddy Doyle

They were joking, but it was a serious conversation. They were often like that, Mary and her granny, when they were alone together. — Roddy Doyle

I live on an island called Ireland where most of the music is shite. I grew up listening to "Danny Boy"; I grew up hating Danny Boy, and all his siblings and his granny. "The pipes, the pipes are caw-haw-hawing." Anything with pipes or fiddles or even - forgive me, Paul - banjos, I detested. Songs of loss, of love, of going across the sea; songs of defiance and rebellion - I vomited on all of them. — Roddy Doyle

Roddy how many times have you won a World Championship? — Randy Orton

The colors. The city. Nothing. But they've got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing. — Roddy White

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else. — Roddy Doyle

Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other. — Roddy Piper

Fuck was the best word. The most dangerous word. You couldn't whisper it. Fuck was always too loud, too late to stop it, it burst in the air above you and fell slowly right over your head. There was total silence, nothing but Fuck floating down. For a few seconds you were dead, waiting for Henno to look up and see Fuck landing on top of you. They were thrilling seconds-when he didn't look up. It was a word you couldn't say anywhere. It wouldn't come out unless you pushed it. It made you feel caught and grabbed you the minute you said it. When it escaped it was like an electric laugh, a soundless gasp followed by the kind of laughing only forbidden things could make, an inside tickle that became a brilliant pain, bashing at your mouth to be let out. It was agony. We didn't waste it. — Roddy Doyle

If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far. — Roddy Doyle

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing. — Roddy Doyle

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever ... — Roddy Doyle

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. — Roddy Doyle

We'll call him Maynard McSmollet and he can be from two towns over," said Aidan, snickering. "No one really knew him that well, kept to himself, but he was crashing the party because he could never resist a kegger - or how about Roderick Spoon? Roddy. The Rodster. He was in band and played electric keyboards but got kicked out of several schools for setting small fires. Yeah, that's better. What do you think, Gavriel? — Holly Black

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music. — Roddy Woomble

I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash! — Roddy Piper

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

Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead? — Roddy Piper

Gloria screamed, but nothing came out. She could feel the scream in her throat, but it was clinging there, too scared to climb out of her mouth.
Raymond might have screamed, too
he wasn't sure. His face was an exploding red ball
that was what it felt like. His heart was in the middle of his head. He couldn't see a thing. — Roddy Doyle

There were days when I didn't exist; he saw through me and walked around me. I was invisible. There were days when I liked not existing. I closed down, stopped thinking, stopped looking ... There were days when I couldn't even feel pain. They were the best ones. I could see it happening. There was no ground under me, nothing to fall to. I was able to not care. I could float. I didn't exist — Roddy Doyle

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

I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool. — Roddy Piper

My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new. — Roddy Piper

God impressed me with this a long time ago: 'Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!'."

~R. Alan Woods [1998] — R. Alan Woods

She's happier than Nicola. That's probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn't know. — Roddy Doyle