Rory McCann quote: "In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way."

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,'...
RORY MCCANN

The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn&...
RORY MCCANN

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I e...
RORY MCCANN

I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and...
RORY MCCANN

I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, wh...
RORY MCCANN

I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with,the...
RORY MCCANN

Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star...
RORY BREMNER

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It'...
RORY MACLEAN

For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I though...
RORY KINNEAR

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, W...
RORY BREMNER

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the ar...
RORY BREMNER

Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of nort...
RORY MACLEAN

I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I d...
RORY FREEDMAN

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, ...
RORY STEWART

I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likew...
RORY MCILROY

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to b...
RORY STEWART

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have c...
RORY MCILROY

I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the hist...
RORY STEWART

I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next ...
RORY MCILROY

I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global f...
RORY BREMNER

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the midd...
RORY BREMNER

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the ...
RORY BREMNER

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I...
RORY MCILROY

People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hi...
RORY CULKIN

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just...
RORY COCHRANE

When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and g...
RORY STEWART

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of ...
RORY MACLEAN

Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or ...
RORY BREMNER

Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and dest...
RORY KINNEAR

I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of ...
RORY KINNEAR

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able ...
RORY MCILROY

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of ...
RORY BREMNER

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look f...
RORY STEWART

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structur...
RORY KINNEAR

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to D...
RORY MCILROY

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person a...
RORY KENNEDY

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of ...
RORY STEWART

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarmin...
RORY MACLEAN

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, y...
RORY KINNEAR

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or,...
RORY BREMNER

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so wha...
RORY BREMNER

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's ...
RORY STEWART

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You kn...
RORY MCILROY

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice...
RORY MACLEAN

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able...
RORY BREMNER

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on be...
RORY MCILROY

I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.
RORY MCILROY

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I...
RORY MCILROY

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when y...
RORY MCILROY

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sen...
RORY KINNEAR

I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve condition...
RORY KENNEDY

Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestima...
RORY KINNEAR

Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters.
RORY MACLEAN

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life ...
RORY BREMNER

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it...
RORY MCILROY

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it...
RORY MCILROY

For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mou...
RORY BREMNER

There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn...
RORY KINNEAR

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talk...
RORY STEWART

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.
RORY FREEDMAN

How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors....
RORY MCILROY

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.
RORY MACLEAN

I don't think it adds any more pressure on the tournament director or creates any resentment. Hey, I...
RORY SABBATINI

I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role mode...
RORY MCILROY

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
RORY BREMNER

Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich...
RORY MACLEAN

When I looked at the scoreboard and he was 2-under through four holes, I knew the only person who ha...
RORY SABBATINI

The Republicans have control of the Senate, but the economy is still struggling. Maybe [Republican c...
RORY ROBERTSON

What is needed in out of the way places, especially in the rainy season, is an elephant. They are an...
RORY HENSMAN

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.
RORY MCILROY

I don't know if you can call it a chip on my shoulder or a monkey on my back, but I shed it today.
RORY SABBATINI

I do not cry because I am sad, but because I am angry at my self for feeling negative emotions.
RORY O'CLEARY

I haven't had too many four-shot leads. I felt like I left a lot of shots out there.
RORY SABBATINI

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.
RORY COCHRANE

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, bu...
RORY FREEDMAN

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
RORY STEWART

(Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game.
RORY HUFF

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact a...
RORY MACLEAN

The problem, with the Conservative Party is that they are actually going backwards. They have now sk...
RORY BREMNER

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could...
RORY KINNEAR

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
RORY COCHRANE

The markets were a little disappointed that the Fed didn't give any explicit hint that a pause is ar...
RORY ROBERTSON

It kicked some 'Daddy'-butt! ... Word of mouth has been really good. It seems to have been a very go...
RORY BRUER

All people are born with kind hearts.
RORY O'CLEARY

Many men have sought out happiness to find it right in front of them.
RORY O'CLEARY

To like something is to waste time; a true master must be passionate.
RORY O'CLEARY

If a guitar is not regularly tuned, it will be unusable; as it is with life.
RORY O'CLEARY

Choices are what either drives a man to madness or strengthens him; it depends on the man's previous...
RORY O'CLEARY

Evil is not natural, nor is goodness. They are created and defined by people.
RORY O'CLEARY

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed thro...
RORY BREMNER

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought...
RORY KENNEDY

There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyon...
RORY KENNEDY

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recal...
RORY FREEDMAN

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside bu...
RORY MCILROY

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air...
RORY BREMNER

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in t...
RORY MCILROY

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in ...
RORY BREMNER

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.
RORY MACLEAN

This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say th...
RORY MCILROY

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.
RORY KINNEAR

One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw.
RORY MACLEAN

Don't crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it's really painful. People think it's necessar...
RORY FREEDMAN

When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the cor...
RORY CULKIN

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with s...
RORY MACLEAN

The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those p...
RORY STEWART

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it ...
RORY BREMNER

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy ...
RORY MACLEAN

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium,...
RORY MCILROY

As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of...
RORY MCILROY

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would ...
RORY BREMNER

The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its d...
RORY MACLEAN

My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver cur...
RORY MACLEAN

I just take a book everywhere with me. It's a habit.
RORY GILMORE

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland...
RORY BREMNER

I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Coun...
RORY GILMORE

People are caught up in the debate over what really happened. The whole idea of exorcisms is intrigu...
RORY BRUER

I don't know how much better newer editions are than the old editions, but I guess it depends on the...
RORY SCHMIDT

Otherwise, we'd constantly be at class, if not work.
RORY WOOLDRIDGE

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
RORY COCHRANE

We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar s...
COLUM MCCANN

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off ...
COLUM MCCANN

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest it...
COLUM MCCANN

This was a great chance to honor both teams in what turned out to be a really successful season.
BETH MCCANN

We had a great tournament and we have no reason to hang our heads. We have a young team and that hur...
BETH MCCANN

She's doing quite well with the team. She really beefs up our defensive line.
BETH MCCANN

This was good practice for next weekend.
BETH MCCANN

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
COLUM MCCANN

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and ma...
COLUM MCCANN

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.
COLUM MCCANN

My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be...
BRYAN MCCANN

There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still b...
BRYAN MCCANN

I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ...
BRYAN MCCANN

[It is the] jobs of groups like us to make sure that doesn't happen. Anytime there is a local screen...
BRYAN MCCANN

My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be...
BRYAN MCCANN

There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still ...
BRYAN MCCANN

I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ...
BRYAN MCCANN

He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right t...
COLUM MCCANN

[Devine] is going to be a great pitcher in this league someday,
BRIAN MCCANN

It was greatest moment I've ever had on the baseball field. Everything just felt right, and it was a...
BRIAN MCCANN

You never expect to hit a home run off a guy like that, ... He's the best pitcher in baseball. He's ...
BRIAN MCCANN

He threw the ball OK. In the second inning, he wasn't hitting his locations like he wanted to. But h...
BRIAN MCCANN

I was going to go up hacking, ... Pitcher on deck. Two outs. He can start throwing his dirtiest stuf...
BRIAN MCCANN

He's just a starting pitcher. He's got three pitches, and he can throw them all for strikes. With hi...
BRIAN MCCANN

I tried to hurry up the throw and it sailed on me. It's terrible.
BRIAN MCCANN

has calluses older than McCann. The kid was 83 days old when Clemens broke in with the Red Sox. He w...
BRIAN MCCANN

Class AA is where you prove you can play, where you prove you can hit consistently good pitching. Ev...
BRIAN MCCANN

He's got great stuff. He's got about eight pitches. I put something down and he throws whatever. He ...
BRIAN MCCANN

We all kind of put in that extra effort to make sure the job gets done. It's getting progressively h...
BOB MCCANN

Based on the new rules, Michigan probably now has the strictest mining laws in the country.
BOB MCCANN

Once that happened, the disputes were resolved and both parties are able to move on.
BOB MCCANN

The goal is to get this plan into workable shape.
BOB MCCANN

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispo...
COLUM MCCANN

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at a...
COLUM MCCANN

When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going h...
COLUM MCCANN

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and...
COLUM MCCANN

You shouldn't intervene. No citizen should feel compelled unless they see something that is exactly ...
KELLY MCCANN

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I d...
COLUM MCCANN

Down there, basketball is the big thing. Some of my friends that I've known since kindergarten are s...
ALEX MCCANN

I didn't start playing until I was 12, but I didn't get really serious until I was in high school.
ALEX MCCANN

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
COLUM MCCANN

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve t...
COLUM MCCANN

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, lit...
COLUM MCCANN

I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...
COLUM MCCANN

I see a lot of loyalty and commitment. In our businesses we have very little voluntary turnover.
CHERYL MCCANN

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really ...
JIM MCCANN

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because ot...
COLUM MCCANN

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.
COLUM MCCANN

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched ...
COLUM MCCANN

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. T...
COLUM MCCANN

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
COLUM MCCANN

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a w...
COLUM MCCANN

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
COLUM MCCANN

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find
in the grime of the everyda...
COLUM MCCANN

With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
COLUM MCCANN

Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He
went where He was supposed t...
COLUM MCCANN

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
COLUM MCCANN

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it on...
COLUM MCCANN

Nobody falls halfway
COLUM MCCANN

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows exce...
COLUM MCCANN

Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.
COLUM MCCANN

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. ...
COLUM MCCANN

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and withi...
COLUM MCCANN

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
COLUM MCCANN

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the s...
COLUM MCCANN

She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth griev...
COLUM MCCANN

The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and...
COLUM MCCANN

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
COLUM MCCANN

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.
COLUM MCCANN

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
COLUM MCCANN

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best da...
COLUM MCCANN

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ...
COLUM MCCANN

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
COLUM MCCANN

Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there...
COLUM MCCANN

His stuff he had in Milwaukee was the same stuff he had tonight.
BRIAN MCCANN

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the da...
COLUM MCCANN

We see people coming in who want the flexibility. They want to work a couple of days a week. It's ju...
CHERYL MCCANN

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
COLUM MCCANN

I am pleased, I was a bit annoyed yesterday as I would have caught the breakaways for sure,
DAVID MCCANN

People actually have come in to see Carol.
CHERYL MCCANN

We're always looking to advance as many as we can. We're happy with nine, I feel bad for Sammy (Mart...
KEVIN MCCANN

In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.

Rory McCann

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