T.R. Patrick Quotes

I'm having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure.

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.

I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo].

I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

You have to be careful when you're doing an interview.

I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.

I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.

There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.

A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.

Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.

We really try to have only one new particle per paper.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible....people ought to be asking, 'What are you in business for?'

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.

I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.