Anthony Edwards Quotes

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.