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" I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page. "

Wentworth Miller

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" I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up. "

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" I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining. "

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" My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. "

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" I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do. "

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" I'm pretty much a couch potato. "

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" The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough. "

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" When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. "

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" I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business. "

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" Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible. "

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" Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. "

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" A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. "

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" An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from. "

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" Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from. "

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" I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out. "

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" My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV. "

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" I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors. "

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" I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people. "

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" You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it. "

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" They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment. "

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" I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant. "

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" Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time. "

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" I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition. "

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" Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal. "

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" If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time. "

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" I've never tried writing at a coffeehouse. I just know instinctively it's not for me. "

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" Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes. "

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" There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time. "

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" In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds. "

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