Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Roddy McDowall

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British actor Roddy McDowall.

Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was a British actor, film director and photographer. He is best known for portraying Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes film series, as well as Galen in the spin-off television series. He began his acting career as a child in England, and then in the United States, in How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Friend Flicka (1943) and Lassie Come Home (1943).

British - Actor | September 17, 1928 - October 3, 1998

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I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

Roddy McDowall

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

Roddy McDowall

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

Roddy McDowall

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Roddy McDowall

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Roddy McDowall

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

Roddy McDowall

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

Roddy McDowall

All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else.

Roddy McDowall

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

Roddy McDowall

Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

Roddy McDowall

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Roddy McDowall

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