American Quotes

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

I like laughter around me.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

I don't know how people chew gum all day long.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older. They're there now, and I'm just not going to panic.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.