Malcolm McDowell Quotes
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.
My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.
I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
