Latest Romany Malco Quotes from Interviews

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• An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

  Romany Malco

  Past, Erode

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.

  Romany Malco

  Morning, Careers, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

  Romany Malco

  Life Lesson, Lessons, Life Is

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.

  Romany Malco

  Commitment, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

  Romany Malco

  Pain, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

  Romany Malco

  Pain, Emotional, Suffering

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• More times than not, my pain stems from an area in which I've been least authentic. The second I identify the source - the area of my inauthenticity - I begin to feel better. This allows me to take complete responsibility for my emotional discomfort, and the awareness enables me to move beyond the blockage. I become energetically unstuck, allowing the pain to pass through me.

  Romany Malco

  Pain, Moving, Responsibility

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.

  Romany Malco

  Tunes, Purpose, Debt

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• If you are courageous enough to be still, you are a step closer to becoming empowered.

  Romany Malco

  Becoming, Steps, Courageous

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face our own silence is an enormous luxury that should not be taken for granted. The most rewarding moments in my life have stemmed from such stillness.

  Romany Malco

  Taken, Media, Luxury

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

  Romany Malco

  Writing, Inspire, Comfort

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.

  Romany Malco

  Art, Space, Opinion

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Being able to engage my creativity in a way that makes a difference inspires me more than anything.

  Romany Malco

  Creativity, Differences, Inspire

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

  Romany Malco

  Dream, People, Significance

  Source: collider.com

• Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.

  Romany Malco

  New York, Real, Inspiration

  Source: collider.com

• The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.

  Romany Malco

  Laughter, Drama, Differences

  Source: collider.com

• For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.

  Romany Malco

  Laughter, Drama, Creating

  Source: collider.com

• My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."

  Romany Malco

  Thinking, Goal, Make You Think

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

• I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

  Romany Malco

  Careers, Fans, Building

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

• I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.

  Romany Malco

  Quality, Fans, Want

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

• Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.

  Romany Malco

  Running, Order, Names

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

• It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.

  Romany Malco

  Mean, Black And White, Past

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

• It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.

  Romany Malco

  Quality, World, Difficult

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About 'Think Like A Man,' Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

• I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.

  Romany Malco

  Everyday, Quality, Offers

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

• I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.

  Romany Malco

  Years, House, Shy

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.