Mike O'Malley quotes

I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.
-- Mike O'Malley

#Age #Trying #Nations

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

#Drama #Successful #Winning

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
-- Mike O'Malley

#Character #Thinking #Doe

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

#Sports #Kids #Giving

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

#Political #World #Care

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
-- Mike O'Malley

#Car #Computer #Tire

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.