Andrew McCarthy Quotes

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

  Andrew McCarthy

• 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 don’t intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing – in their mind.

  Andrew McCarthy

• 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 seems to be so much different than what I’m told, so much of the time.

  Andrew McCarthy

• 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 the points of view.

  Andrew McCarthy

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

  Andrew McCarthy

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

  Andrew McCarthy

• 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 shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.

  Andrew McCarthy

• 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 festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.

  Andrew McCarthy

• 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 steps, you’re always thinking what next, what next, what next?

  Andrew McCarthy

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

  Andrew McCarthy

• 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 start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that’s in your head.

  Andrew McCarthy

• 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.

  Andrew McCarthy

Andrew McCarthy (12)

Birth:	29th November, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Television Director, Writer

About

Andrew Thomas McCarthy was born in Westfield, New York. He 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.  As McCarthy's career grew, he involuntarily became a member of the '80s Hollywood group of young actors known as the "Brat Pack"; McCarthy's better-known films include the Brat Pack films St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink.  In 1985, McCarthy made his Broadway debut in The Boys of Winter. He quickly returned to Hollywood in 1988 to star in several films, such as Fresh Horses and Kansas. He had another hit in the 1989 comedy film Weekend at Bernie's. McCarthy has also become a travel writer, and is currently an Editor at Large at National Geographic Traveler magazine. A book written by McCarthy, The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down, was published in 2012.

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