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" I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. "

Wentworth Miller

Evil

About

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" I am a workaholic, have always been. "

Wentworth Miller

I Am

Been

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it. "

" I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional. "

" 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. "

" I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too. "

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

" Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people. "

" I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very easy to be the young Tom Cruise, because Hollywood knows what to do with you. But if you're someone who's bringing someone slightly left of center to the table, you're not a sure thing. "

" I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult. "

" This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film. "

Wentworth Miller

Proud

Modeling

" I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. "

" 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. "

Wentworth Miller

Looking Back

Business

" I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or at least that's the line I feed my parents when they start wondering where all that good money went. "

" Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair. "

" To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it? "

" My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities. "

" It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations. "

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