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" 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
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Modeling
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" I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans. "
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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'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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. "
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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've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's been a very good genre to me. "
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" There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer. "
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" I'm neither sexy nor a star. "
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" There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate. "
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" I am a workaholic, have always been. "
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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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" Everyone has their challenges. "
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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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" You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for. "
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" I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks. "
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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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" There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of. "
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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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" 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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" I've never read a book or attended a class on screenwriting. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I like what I've got going on naturally and want to protect that. The one question I will ask myself as I'm re-reading a script for the 60th time is, 'Am I entertained? Still?' If the answer is 'yes,' I'll assume other people will be, too. "
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" 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. "
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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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