Malachy McCourt
Malachy McCourt
Malachy Gerard McCourtis an Irish-American actor, writer, and politician. He was the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor in New York State, losing to the Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. He is the younger brother of author Frank McCourt...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 September 1931
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryIreland
democracy speak persons
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
children years married
I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.
real differences violence
We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
party thinking names
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
children media games
The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
rights giving corporations
The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
body trade humans
Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.
office corporations computer
Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.
parent tragedy loses
To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
father drinking leaving
I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
punishment hell
That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.
jobs years people
There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.
dream arrows weapons
I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.
war stupid destiny
I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?