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Colm Meaney Quotes

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: irish
Birth: May 30, 1953

Topics

Good Writing Comedy Enjoy Hard Make

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

Sports Lost Now London Always Beat

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

Influence Think Anxiety You Movies

Things have changed so much. People walked away from a simple life we had in the '20s and '30s, and I am glad that I am able to touch that period in our lives with the shows that I do and with the music that I do.

Life Music Simple I Am People Touch

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Men Religion Thought Perfect Liberty

I'd like to be a director who gives my actors complete freedom while collaborating with them to find performances.

Freedom Find Director Complete Like

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Doing Career Stop Movies Hollywood

About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

Donna Lynne Champlin

Friend Job New York City College Me

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

Live Moving On Me Moving Night Year

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Knowledge Ignorance You More Your

My entire life has been a lie.

Life Lie Been Entire Life Entire

What is to give light must endure burning.

Strength Light Endure Give Must

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Wislawa Szymborska

Beginning Book Events Always Open

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