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 some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.


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I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of ...
MALCOLM TURNBULL
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the hones...
MALCOLM TURNBULL
It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It h...
MALCOLM TURNBULL
The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matte...
MALCOLM TURNBULL
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL
In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once ...
MALCOLM TURNBULL
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adop...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then th...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people co...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to g...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or c...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
MALCOLM MCLAREN
I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that yo...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've ju...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
MALCOLM MCLAREN
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
MALCOLM MCLAREN
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
Don't kill the golden goose.
MALCOLM MCLAREN
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn righ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may ch...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
MALCOLM LOWRY
War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under dif...
MALCOLM LOWRY
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
MALCOLM LOWRY
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the t...
MALCOLM LOWRY
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
The underdog winning is the romantic position.
MALCOLM GLADWELL
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
MALCOLM GLADWELL
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petul...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse....
MALCOLM GLADWELL
In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physi...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't jud...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly peo...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technol...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
MALCOLM GLADWELL
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you ru...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man...
MALCOLM GETS