Gary Cole Quotes

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.