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" 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. "

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" 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. "

David Morse

Boston

Opportunity

Pretty

" 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. "

" As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.' "

" 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. "

" I'm a very private person. "

" Film is a very intimate medium. "

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

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

David Morse

Play

Actor

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

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

David Morse

Pleasure

Acting

" No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other. "

" I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head. "

" I was getting to the point where I said to my wife, 'I don't think I'll ever be in New York in a play again.' "

" With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting. "

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

" My first summer at a repertory theater, I was making $20 a week. I was making a living, as far as I was concerned, and I was doing theater. And next season, I made $40 a week. But I don't think anyone in my family would have considered that making a living. "

" 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'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. "

" Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy. "

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

" Everything is interesting to me. "

David Morse

Interesting

Everything

" 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. "

" I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else's world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn't express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions. "