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
catholics hold hope miserable
I hope the Catholics don't get a hold of him and make him a saint. That would make him most miserable and unhappy, because he would not think he was worthy." ()
taking
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
competition towns follow-me
Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put in the refrain, "follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town."
looks substance look-up
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
cigarette used philanderer
I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.
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.
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.
dream arrows weapons
I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.
squares people missing
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
like-you persons
Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.