David McCallum Quotes

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

I love doing animation - mainly because you get to over-act. They're always saying "more," "louder," "bigger," "huger" and you just turn it lose. Plus, doing animation voiceovers, I have learned so much, and it's always good in your career to discover something you didn't know, and to learn to do things differently. So it's a fascinating experience.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.