58 Quotes by Malcolm McDowell

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.