Ron Moody Quotes

I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets.

Ron Moody

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 8, 1924 - June 11, 2015

Topics

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Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

John Burnside

BookLongWrongDoneWriteTwo

The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.

Andrew Shaffer

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Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims.

Michael Greger

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I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

Martin Scorsese

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You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

Mickey Rourke

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We measure everything - why not governance?

Mo Ibrahim

MeasureWhyEverythingGovernance

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

David Walliams

ComedyFirstRadioWouldWhoTV

We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.

Peter Max

WalkingHandsYouDownKnowStreet

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Nicolas Chamfort

DayWastedMostWhichLaughed

I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.

Liam Neeson

LifeThinkMustEvenI ThinkSome

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

Kin Hubbard

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