Wentworth Miller Quotes

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

I have my own personal wish list.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.

I'm pretty much a couch potato.

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Everyone has their challenges.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was a lovely surprise to find so much meat on the bone.

I had my one guest star on The Flash, and that became several guest stars, and then they mentioned this new show.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

[asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help]No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.