19 Quotes by Roddy McDowall

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films, because I wasn't,

Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling "Stella! Stella!" God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.

I really liked Lassie, but that horse, Flicka, was a nasty animal with a terrible disposition. All the Flickas-all six of them-were awful.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else.