Malcolm McDowell Quotes

Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

I demand excellence from the people I work with.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If you can dismiss the best in the world, it means you're doing something right and have the quality needed to perform at the highest level.

When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

In art the best is good enough.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.