Paul Schneider Quotes

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.

Sometimes if you've got a story that's interesting enough, you don't need to pour sugar on ice cream. The ice cream is great.

I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.

I feel like I'm still learning the ropes of how television works. Obviously I have good folks surrounding me on different shows. It's funny because sometimes in film I'm sort of the third guy to the left, you can be as insane as you want to be as that guy.

If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.

I'm going to do my job and I don't care if I'm not friends with anybody. I don't need to be best friends with all my co-workers to do a good job.

Too thick to drink," as the boatmen used to say about the water of the Mississippi River, "too thin to walk on.

You can't have a director say, "Just be you"; you have to have an aim. It's like when you throw darts, you have to know where the bullseye is. You can't just say, "No no no no no, drop the darts. Just stand. We're going to film you." You have to get there indirectly. You have to have me doing something, and then you can get "me."

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.