Skeet Ulrich Quotes

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase.

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

I get to play a killer next.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.