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
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.
awful disease dread
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
disease excuse said
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
far
It would take far too long to get in and out of low-cut dresses." ()
family
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
might
A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
taking
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
allowed behave charming fantasy indulge since taste
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
cold feeling floor second time uprooted wonderful
That second floor was a wonderful adventure. It was cozy. But at the same time we had this feeling of being uprooted ? and also of being cold and of having to come back down to the real world." ()
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 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.
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.