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" I just came home one day and, in a midlife-crisis sort of way, I told my wife, 'I'm going to run a marathon,' not really understanding what that was. Then I just kind of got into it, and now that I have been running pretty consistently over the past few years, I don't know if it's because I love it or because I hate myself. I just really enjoy it. "

Paul Sparks

Love

Myself

" Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard. "

" I don't know everybody's political opinions, but I think the majority of people in the arts are pretty leftist, and we're disappointed in the Trump administration. "

" If I was able to be omniscient and look at my career objectively, I'd be very happy. "

" Endurance training is so mental. You just do it. You just can, and you just will, and you just run that far because, you know, I get tired at the first mile. I feel heavy and all of those things, but now I have developed, it's hard to explain... It's a very satisfying place to get into. "

" I actually did not like to run. It was probably my least favorite thing that I had to do, and then in 1999, I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic. It was really strange. One good thing to do for diabetes is to exercise. I don't really like gyms anymore, and I travel quite a bit, so I realized that you can just take shoes and shorts and run anywhere. "

" I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them for it, but I cannot. I will go down with the ship. "

" A lot of times, sets are not such fun places to be, and especially television sets, because everybody works so hard, and everybody's kind of grumbling about getting up at 3 o'clock in the morning and not getting home until midnight. "

Paul Sparks

Fun

Home

" No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle. "

" As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them. "

Paul Sparks

Interested

Them

" I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against. "

" There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in. "

" When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story. "

" As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs. "

" I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories. "

Paul Sparks

Think

Creative

" I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.' "

" I think that's kind of nice that there's this kind of inherent respect between runners who do a marathon. People respect somebody who has done it, and I will do anything to get some respect because I don't get a lot respect in my life. "

" I'm a total slave to a good story. "

" I'm pretty fortunate that my beard - if I shave it off, I look like a completely different person. My face, it transforms. I mean, I have a weird face! My eyes are really deep and sunken. My son tells me, 'You don't have any eyebrows.' "

Paul Sparks

Son

Face

" I have a somewhat reclusive quality myself, and actually what's great about New York is that it pushes you to be social because the streets are full of people. "