T.R. Patrick Quotes

When jobs come up, like a low-budget film like The Last Exorcism, you say yes and you see where it takes you.

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

This is a boyhood dream, but I've always wanted to play the sheriff. I've wanted to be in a Western, in the hat, playing the sheriff.

For me, there's still plenty of ground to be covered, as I get older. It's worked out great so far. I take it one job at a time. I'll just keep my eyes toward the next job and see where it takes me.

It's important to feel and to be connected to your emotions, whichever way they play out.

Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation.

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.

You get to do what you want to do – if that’s what you want to do.

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

If you want to attack someone you attack their family. That is easy. You don't have to say directly.

I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.

Casual to me implies a lack of care or thought.

I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.

We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.

I am not a Virginian, I am an American.

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.

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

If you watch a movie, it never happens that you see a character that is in every single scene.

Some like to start from the inside and then go to the outside. I'm the other type of actor. First, I have to know how my character looks, how he walks, how he drives, how he eats.

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.

I'm really blessed with the people in my life who keep me on track and keep pushing me forward.

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working.

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.

As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

You don't fight cancer with grants, or heart disease with grants.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.