Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I will be always grateful to NBC. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" Everything is interesting to me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In high school, I tried out for every sport there was. But none of them would have me. When I was a freshman, someone asked me to go audition for a play with them. I got in and didn't want to do anything else for the next four years. "

" I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people. "

" In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience. "

" By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do. "

" 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. "

" At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years. "

" '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. "

" I try to do things I haven't been able to before. "

" Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up. "

" In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. "

" I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them. "

" 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. "

" Film is a very intimate medium. "

" I'm acting for the pleasure of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had the great good fortune of working with Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen, and Arthur Hill early in my career, and it set a standard for the kind of work I want to do. "

" I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds. "

" Part of the problem when I was doing 'How I Learned to Drive' is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the '94 Northridge earthquake. "

" 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. "