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.
children powerful laughter
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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."
beautiful laughter color
Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.
school talking people
I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
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.
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.