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12 quotes by Andrew McCarthy

Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor, award-winning travel writer and television director from Westfield, N.J. He is known for his roles in the 1980s films St. Elmo's Fire, Mannequin, Weekend at Bernie's, Pretty in Pink, and Less Than Zero, and more recently for his roles in the television shows Lipstick Jungle, White Collar and Royal Pains.
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The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people... →

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Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

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I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

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In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three... →

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And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

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It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

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The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

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I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they... →

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In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast... →

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It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't... →

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So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all... →

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So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience... →

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