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Mike O'Malley Quotes

There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily find in acting.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1966

Topics

Joy Writing Present You Find Acting

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

Money You Information Lose Will Get

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

Time Growing Up Someone Long Growing

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Faith Today Blind Say Actor Who

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

Character Great Imagination Writing

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

War Experiment Vietnam Laboratory

One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.

Life Eyes Myself People World Find

This guy in L.A. asks for my autograph every time I see him. Then I find out he's eBaying 'em for $50. I'm flattered, but no one's going to pay $50 for anyone's autograph, let alone mine.

Alone Time Find Pay See Out

You can't spend your life apologizing.

Life You Your Apologizing Spend

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

City Rich Poverty Poor Rule Greater

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

Truth People Truth Is Think Feel

Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Home People Me Conflict Born Run

The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life.

Life Character I Am Me Language

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