Michael O'Donoghue Quotes

• Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Life Is, Bigs, Minefields

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• You only live once and, usually, not even then.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  You Only Live Once

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• Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Revenge, Heart, Hands

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• I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Thinking, Buttons, Television

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• Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  People, Laughing, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Government, Hands, Utah

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• Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Given

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• Licorice is the liver of candy.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Candy, Liver

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• The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Beautiful, Men, Flying

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• If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Southern, Mountain, Would Be

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• It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  World, Disaster, Ends

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• Amazing products, cats. And real simple to manufacture.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Real, Cat, Simple

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• A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Would Be, Roaches, Madagascar

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• It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Scary, Desire, Cockroaches

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• Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Events, Strange, Mysterious

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• It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Real, Moving, Flesh

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• Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  San Francisco, Important, Rice

  "Mr. Mike’s America: A Comic’s Trek with SNL’s First Head Writer" by Paul Slansky, Playboy, paulslansky.com. March 1983.

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• Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Roaches, Television, Want

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• Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Scary, Secret, Insects

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