Michael Trucco Quotes

I would love to shoot in San Francisco permanently. It would be such a joy to come back home full circle.

I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

If I hadn't become an actor, I would've pursued a race-car driving career.

I don't really retain much from the first couple semesters of my criminal justice studies.

I'm the luckiest guy alive.

It's not unknown that Vancouver is a huge destination for television and film. It has been for many years. It just seems to be that I'm drawn to the show that shoots in Vancouver.

I come back home almost every weekend, or my wife comes up every other weekend to Vancouver. So, in that sense, we make it work. It's just a great city. It's a great country. They've been good to me, and I have no problems being up there.

Police work was fascinating, and I didn't imagine that acting was something a kid from San Mateo, California, could really pursue.

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

A lot of shows have couples with issues inside the relationship.

You just can't fake chemistry.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.

Guys like scars! They're like war wounds.

I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.

I try to have a true line in every character I play.

I hate to dance. The thought of having to dance terrifies me.

I'm not accustomed to taking a swing at a woman's head. That's not in my DNA.

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.

It's an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel - it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.

My friends all tell me I was born with a horseshoe up my butt.