Quotes by Mike O'malley - Page 1

I love how professional sports unite a city and a group of people.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Sports
Professional Sports
Love City People
Group
Unite
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The tale of the actor struggling to make it is oft-told for a reason.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Struggling
Tale
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I'm just very interested in how we, as people, can live the right way.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Right Way
People Way Live
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I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Age
Nations
Trying
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I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Character
Doe
Thinking
Evolving
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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Car
Computer
Fuse
Tire
Panel
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I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Commencement
Guts
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A lot of times in television, it's incredibly rushed, and you're just trying to get the pace.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Pace
Rushed
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It's always good to remind yourself of how awful people can be, even when they seem to be projecting kindness.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Projecting
Remind
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I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been for me.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Remorse
Focus Me Always
Solely
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That's what I'm attracted to: how people face struggle - with humor - and how they handle tough situations in their lives and in conversations.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Handle
Conversations
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There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily find in acting.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Gratification
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People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Angle
Pay Attention
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Cory Monteith was a great guy; Funny, deep, thoughtful, and hardworking. In real life, he was the coolest dude, generous, and a great friend to his pals.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Generous
Great Guy
Hardworking
Pals
Real Life
Thoughtful
Life Funny Great
Friend
Coolest
Dude
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The way that I live is in between the dual experiences of the tragedy mask and the comedy mask. I feel that I write best and think best in between those two masks.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Comedy
Mask
Tragedy
Dual
Experiences
Best Way Feel
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Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Care
Discourse
Political
World
Interested
Politics Political World
Course
Necessarily
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The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Improves
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I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Kids
Sports
Giving
Coach
Interact
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I will talk to anybody about 'Survivor's Remorse' because I'm proud of the show and the actors and directors and the entire crew. I just like doing the work, and I want people watching the show so we can make more.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Crew
Remorse
Work People Will
Work People Doing
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For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men. Straight people can write about gay people; gay people can write about straight people.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Women Men Imagination
Restrict
Straight People
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I think a family is the best way to open up the appeal of a show because everyone has a mother. Everyone has a father. Everyone has cousins or siblings. Everyone's trying to pursue their romantic ideals and their relationship ideals.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Best Way
Ideals
Pursue
Sibling
Appeal
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A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you're doing a sitcom, people don't give you a lot of credit, because you've got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it's successful.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Credit
Drama
Sitcom
Weight
Your Keep People
Gain
Gain Weight
Oscar
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A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Drama
Successful
Winning
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It's funny - sometimes people think we, as actors, have this wide range of choices of the roles we're doing, and in a lot of ways, when you're a younger actor, or just if you want to make a living in the business, you take your opportunities where they come.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Range
Wide
Wide Range
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I took my job for Nickelodeon very seriously, and back then, it wasn't certainly as big of a network as it is now, culturally, and people my age didn't know much about it. But I loved my time there. I really put everything I had into doing 'Guts,' and it actually taught me a lot about how to work really hard.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Guts
Nickelodeon
Work Time Age
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There have been plenty of things that I've written that other people haven't cared about, but it hasn't stopped me from being a writer. So, I don't even think about other people. I'm just interested writing about human beings so if somebody calls and says, 'We'd like you to do it,' I'd say, 'That sounds like a cool idea.'
Mike O'malley / Actor
Cool Me People
Calls
Cared
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We know, in history, people are unable to put different elements together and create gold, yet it's what you're asking actors to do every day. You're asking them to relax enough with the confines and restrictions of the lights and the cameras, and you gotta hit this mark, to relax enough to create what seems wonderful and beautiful.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Cameras
Elements
Gold
Relax
Confines
Different Elements
Gotta
Lights
Restrictions
Unable
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