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" 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. "
Wentworth Miller
Way
Actor
You
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" Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.' "
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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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" 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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" I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly. "
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Friday
Year
Week
" Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people. "
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Some People
" 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? "
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Girl
You
Home
" I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too. "
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Bittersweet
Too
Feel
" 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. "
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Parents
Start
Money
" I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often. "
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Been
Story
Spoiled
" I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone. "
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Camera
Great
Know
" I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. "
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Been
Large
Stick
" I'm neither sexy nor a star. "
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Sexy
Star
Neither
" Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes. "
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Everyone
Nobody
Shoes
" Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night. "
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Car
Night
Time
" I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine. "
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Mine
You
Eyes
" 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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Walk
Need
You
" I am a workaholic, have always been. "
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I Am
Been
Am
" I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe. "
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Lazy
Work
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" My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up. "
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Growing Up
Family
Video Games
" 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. "
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Myself
Expectations
Better
" I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment. "
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Weekends
Eating
Sleeping
" I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional. "
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Little
Professional
Time
" You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for. "
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Cry
Help
Believe
" 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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Me
Business
" A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. "
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Story
Me
" My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. "
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Tough
Reality
Prison
" Everyone has their challenges. "
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Challenges
Everyone
" 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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People
" 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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