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Who was that supervisor?" "That was Art Donovan.
Auntie Mame, who was the british lady?
'Oh, she's from Pittsburgh'
'But she had the acc-'
'Well, when your from Pittsburgh you gotta do something
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
I need some Ummagumma.
Alan McCluskey
Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.
If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.
MacMillian steepled his fingers on the head of his cane. Anticipation rose in his chest. Lena and Cyrus Alan might have an advantage over him when it came to hunting ghosts, but this was where he excelled. This part of the game was all about patterns. He saw patterns. Always had.
your uncle Geoffrey.
He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The moustache is a pose. Yet, he hams this unpredictable matey belligerence, this curiously Midlands attitude. Colin is home away from home, I reflect, even if not the home you ever really liked.
Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.
The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.
Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.
Who could forget Malcolm Devon?
It isn't every day I get to meet a legend. Dan Cahill, I presume? - Dr. Tagamayer
What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?
Margowegottagohomeandtell.
Ware the man who fakes a limp.
Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.
Dear God, Holt looks good in that costume. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo.
I'll get it, said Jough in his man-of-the-house voice, a full octave lower than his regular voice.
Alex McLeish has just had his hands in his head
Clare. Give me a reason to stay.
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?
Magistrate's son and is quite concerned with appearances. She is a weekender. Mutch - Mutch is the youngest member of
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of Joolz Denby and Pam Ayres and, like them, her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001
of the afternoon Mr. Fitz-Wattle----
If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.
Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.
Mr. Tracy Tupman - the too susceptible Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses - love.
Peter Crouch, the Marmite of football.
The most original novelist now writing in English.
Ronan and Declan Lynch were undeniably brothers, with the same dark brown hair and sharp nose, but Declan was solid where Ronan was brittle. Declan's wide jaw and smile said Vote for me while Ronan's buzzed head and thin mouth warned that this species was dangerous.
Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it
Nameless McBitchypants
Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.
Mum, Dad, Fergus... this is Skulduggery Pleasant
Where is he? Bridgerton!" he bellowed.
Three chestnut heads swiveled in his direction. Simon stomped across the grass, murder in his eyes.
"I meant the idiot Bridgerton."
"That, I believe," Anthony said mildly, tilting his chin toward Colin, "would refer to you.
Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.
Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
The divinely talented Adam Arkin. So underrated. Every time I do a piece and they go, 'You know, you need a husband in this,' I ask, 'Can Adam Arkin do it?'
I love Terry O'Quinn. He's a wonderful guy, wonderful actor.
My breath slipped from me, almost a groan. Trent Kalamack. The obscenely successful, smiling businessman, ruthless bio- and street-drug lord, elf in hiding, and pain-in-my-ass-extraordinaire Trent Kalamack. Right on schedule. Why is it you show up only when I need money?
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.
Sir Swagger Douchington the Fuck
Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.
The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties.
Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.
Bill Milliken is a big hero of mine.
Maa" The only word that holds power to give you strength when you are in pain.
If I've learned one thing today, it's that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods. Detective Stephen Moran
Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
A poor childhood in West Virginia had left Maura with a strong sense of self-reliance, a high tolerance for discomfort, and a black sense of humor.
You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan
I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.
Well, schmear my bagel, if it isn't Mara Dyer.
The guy from the bar appeared silently at Uncle Billy's side, his expression cool and steady. He nodded at me once, and turned to my uncle. Seeing him face-to-face,I knew, absolutely, he wasn't just a regular customer. He was a complicationa. A big one. Mo, meet Colin Donnelly. Your bodyguard.
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.
Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then he began to laugh, softly. JZB: "Well played, Ms. Lane." Mac: "I had a good teacher." JZB: "The best. Hop on one foot, Ms. Lane." Mac and Barrons
Beloved King of Comedy.
Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke.
Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.
The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with a wonderful sequence of bleak studies about the ways in which human lives can go awry - in my view, Dubliners is underrated.
He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?'
'No, I have not.'
'Well, well, such is fame!
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
He is the cheese to my macaroni.
I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.
A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you.
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.
[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.
Shirley MacLaine: what an asshole.
Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams ... There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.
Ben Morris is fucking Switzerland
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.
Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.
comedic playwright.
I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.
MRS. REYES FARROW.
Alastair Moock is the second coming of John Prine.
I gave my word," Crispen said stubbornly.
"You said a McCabe never breaks his word."
Ewan shook his head wearily. "I'm beginning
to regret telling you of things a McCabe
doesn't do. Come, let's sit in the hall so you
can tell me of these adventures of yours.
Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.
Krohan but from that distance he sounded almost
Clay Blaisdell Western
Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
Holy Hottie-McHotters!
Why?' - Nasuada
'You know why' - Murtagh
Morgenthau quotes
Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
I'm a big David Lynch fan.
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry.
Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories.
McGough: Really? When?
Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ...
I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.
They say it's a wise bairn that kens its father, but I dinna think there's much doubt who yours is, lass. Ye might have had the lang nebbit and red locks from anyone, but ye didna get the stubbornness from any man but Jamie Fraser.