T.R. Patrick Quotes

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.

Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

The ties that I have here were too strong to break.

You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.

There's just something about me and my persona that's a little bit bigger than life and ridiculous at times.

Fortunately work begets work.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

I always wanted to do a Disney movie.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

I don't concentrate on if a moment is scary or not. That's not my job.

I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

Honestly, if you're just going to be the love interest then at least let it be a really good movie. Not every role is going to be Hamlet, I know that.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

I just don't watch a lot of TV.