I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two of the real great filmmakers very early on. Better to have had them than to not have had them. I've been really fortunate. That's the key relationship on a movie: the director and the actor. Of course, you can't compare the experiences. When you're in your early 20s, you're a very different person. It was a very exciting time, and my whole world was changing. Now I'm looking back, and hoping I can still offer something. Still do good work.
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… - Malcolm Mcdowell
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…
- Malcolm Mcdowell
One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place. - Malcolm Mcdowell
One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.
I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making som… - Malcolm Mcdowell
I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making som…
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things. - Malcolm Mcdowell
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it. - Malcolm Mcdowell
Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
I particularly love theater, I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as lon… - Malcolm Mcdowell
I particularly love theater, I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as lon…
Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. - Malcolm Mcdowell
Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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 as… - Malcolm Mcdowell
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 as…
I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two of the real great filmmakers very early … - Malcolm Mcdowell
I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two of the real great filmmakers very early …
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