I'm a trained actor and I can always tone it down, I can always simplify the work I've done. But if I'm asked to bring the nuanced and complicated work, I'll have it in my pocket, and all that information… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers. — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world. — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive. — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there and I… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
I was eating with the help of a nutritionist so I was definitely putting in the appropriate calories and vitamins and minerals into my… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
For some roles, like when I was doing Bent, that was harder and I didn't find that helpful because I was so calorie deprived,… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y. — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent and it… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
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