Skeet Ulrich Quotes

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

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

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

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

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

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

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

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

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.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.

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

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

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.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

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

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

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.

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

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

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

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

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