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" As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.' "
David Morse
Why
Big
Look
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" Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy. "
David Morse
Bad
World
Story
" I'm a very private person. "
David Morse
Very
Person
Private
" I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link. "
David Morse
Team
Work
Science
" I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film. "
David Morse
Great Things
Done
Television
" My first summer at a repertory theater, I was making $20 a week. I was making a living, as far as I was concerned, and I was doing theater. And next season, I made $40 a week. But I don't think anyone in my family would have considered that making a living. "
David Morse
Summer
Think
Week
" To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience. "
David Morse
Finding
Playing
Love
" I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them. "
David Morse
Done
Camera
Better
" You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again. "
David Morse
Run
Film
Stop
" Film is a very intimate medium. "
David Morse
Intimate
Film
Very
" I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at all; then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did 'St. Elsewhere' and all those TV movies. "
David Morse
Doing
Children
Early
" I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids. "
David Morse
Always
Community
Family
" I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater. "
David Morse
Money
Championship
See
" In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play. "
David Morse
Play
Actor
Me
" I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. "
David Morse
Flying
Roller Coaster
Way
" I try to do things I haven't been able to before. "
David Morse
Things
Before
Been
" Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened. "
David Morse
Age
Father
Leader
" I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them. "
David Morse
Them
Any
No Time
" I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds. "
David Morse
Boomer
Lot
Minds
" Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when. "
David Morse
Know
Thought
Movies
" One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it. "
David Morse
Year
Me
Height
" It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other. "
David Morse
Just
Want
Feet
" With repertory, you had to play all these different characters. The range of roles is really what I fell in love with, every night getting to become somebody different. That was my idea of acting, getting to be part of the company and a family. "
David Morse
Love
Night
You
" I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself. "
David Morse
Care
Feel Good
Good
" 'Outsiders,' I guess, is sort of dark, but I don't really think of it as dark. The world up there on that mountain, it had the potential to have a lot of fun as well as a lot of drama, these guys raiding the town in their ATVs with their tattoos. It seemed like something different. "
David Morse
World
Mountain
Fun
" I will be always grateful to NBC. "
David Morse
Will
Grateful
NBC
" There's been one movie star that would not work with me because of my height. I had so many people who had to stand on boxes when they do scenes with me. "
David Morse
People
Work
Star
" I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head. "
David Morse
Time
Teacher
She
" The relationship with producers has always, in my experience, been, uhhh - tense. Challenging. But the actors and crew become like family. You're there all those hours - more than on a movie. You come to depend on each other. "
David Morse
Experience
Relationship
You
" With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting. "
David Morse
Likes
Surprised
Acting
" Everything is interesting to me. "
David Morse
Interesting
Me
Everything