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
song silly kids
Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
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."
hard-work people purpose
My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.
flower bees avoided
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
waiting broadcasting i-can
Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.
writing goes-on enjoy
When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.
writing hands long
When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.
looks stuff way
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
compassion crime facets
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
dream new-york fruition
This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.
thinking saint edited
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
past care oppression
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
thinking awful come-up
The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.
moving people today
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.