They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.
Roddy McDowallI can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
Roddy McDowallFortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
Roddy McDowallI 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 McDowallAll 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