David Morse Quotes

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

The real future of the Hispanic targeted media and advertising is in English.

I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles.

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

I thought, "I don't want to be the only unfunny guy in this movie. I really would like to be somehow involved in the comedy if I'm going to do it."

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

I have so many people who still talk to me about The Long Kiss Goodnight, about that being one of their favorite movies, and it really was a fun movie.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.