Patrick Wilson Quotes

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

I just don't watch a lot of TV.

You never want to judge your character.

You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day.

Musical theater is one of my passions.

If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

You know, I gotta be honest. I have not done a lot of CGI work. I just haven't. I mean, there were hundreds of effects in Watchmen, and I probably dealt with almost none of them, because all my stuff was very practical.

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.

There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and all that. Without a doubt, it has always come down to the script for me. I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

I'm an early-morning owl.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.

I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and ... whoa! That's always good.

I remember seeing Extreme play with [Debra] Winger and Cinderella. Gary Cherone was wearing purple velvet overalls with no shirt and saddle oxfords.Afterward, I went home and told my mom, "I need to find saddle oxfords." And she said, "Like little girls wear?" Naturally, I couldn't find them in my size, so I went to a shoemaker and had him make me a pair. I wore them for a while, but they didn't seem as cool on me, because when your foot is size 12, they sort of look like clown shoes.

I don't concentrate on if a moment is scary or not. That's not my job.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.

A heroic nature is very Greek.