Malcolm McDowell Quotes

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

People really don't understand what actors do.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

Acting is a youthful profession.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

You know, I love acting.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespeare, it's still entertainment. We're just entertaining people. We're just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

I like everything about acting.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

An actor is only merchandise.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.