Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew Thomas McCarthyis an American actor, travel writer and television director from Westfield, New Jersey. He is known for his roles in the 1980s films St. Elmo's Fire, Mannequin, Weekend at Bernie's, Pretty in Pink, and Less Than Zero, and more recently for his roles in the television shows Lipstick Jungle, White Collar, Royal Pains, and The Family...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 November 1962
CityWestfield, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be & the lie is a lot more consequential.
Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,
If you think about it, it's obvious why that's so. They have at their disposal the information which really is the top-secret, most precious, national security information that we have.
In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.
I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.
I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.