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
knows
I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
liquid foundation theory
I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
energy sound
The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.
men stones way
When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.
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.
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.
healing duty obligation
Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
recovery disease incurable-disease
There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
father disease alcoholics
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
democracy speak persons
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
new-york people complaining
I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
new-york cities government
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
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.
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?