Malcolm McDowell Quotes

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

It's nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you've done something good.

I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Fame and success are very different things.