Latest Malcolm McDowell Quotes from Interviews

• I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two of the real great filmmakers very early on. Better to have had them than to not have had them. I've been really fortunate. That's the key relationship on a movie: the director and the actor. Of course, you can't compare the experiences. When you're in your early 20s, you're a very different person. It was a very exciting time, and my whole world was changing. Now I'm looking back, and hoping I can still offer something. Still do good work.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Real, Different, Lucky

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself. I particularly love theater, but with my family situation, it's much harder for me to do that now. I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it. I think, honestly, having fun and keeping it fairly light are the key elements.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Fun, Thinking, Long

  Source: film.avclub.com

• It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Scary, Community, Serial Killer

  Source: dailydead.com

• I particularly love theater, I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Fun, Long, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Real, Greatness, Levels

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.

• The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Hero, Men, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

• The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Clever, People, Dangerous

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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. They may inadvertently do it, but it's because of the script, not the acting.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Character, Acting, Doe

  Source: www.gq.com

• I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Bored, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.gq.com