Patrick Heusinger Quotes

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

[Jack Reacher] is the longest I'd ever shot anything - and let's be clear, this is my first studio feature film - so there was a huge learning curve.

The guy [Tom Cruise] is a machine.

[ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last to leave.