Roddy McDowall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Sports #Brother #Home
I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!
-- Roddy McDowall

#Children #Believe #Boys
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

#Thinking #People #Trying
They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.
-- Roddy McDowall

#New York #Boys #Play
I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
-- Roddy McDowall

#Children #Unhappy #Actors
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

#Children #Actors #Study
I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.
-- Roddy McDowall

#Jobs #Thinking #Actors
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
-- Roddy McDowall

#Easter #New York #Television

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.
I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.
And unlike the rest of you, he hasnâ€™t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he wonâ€™t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.
My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.

Roddy McDowall famous quotes

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