Daron Malakian Quotes

First you have to do what you're supposed to do before you can do what you'd like to do.

My life is about the line, my daughter and my husband.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.

Keep your eye on what you're responsible to and what you're responsible for, and that'll keep you right.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

If you can, you must.

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.

My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

When a job, whether it is generally regarded as important or not, falls to my lot to do....it assumes importance immediately as far as I am concerned. I cannot rest until it is completed…whatever service I have succeeded in rendering to the nation is due, mainly, to this attitude and outlook of mine with regard to work

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life.

The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.