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Portrait of Michael Rooker

Michael Rooker

(1955) Actor United States

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Michael Rooker is an actor from the United States, best known for The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, Volume 15.

Quick Facts About Michael Rooker

Born: April 6, 1955
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, Volume 15

About Michael Rooker

Michael Rooker is an American actor. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date including Slither (2006), Super (2010) and The Suicide Squad (2021), along with the TV series Peacemaker.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Michael Rooker

If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and…

Acting

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The cosplayers are very fun. The kids are the best. Everyone is a kid at a comic con. There are some amazing…

Amazing

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I've been in this business a long time, and I've worked with a lot of different directors now. It's cool to get…

Business

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I'm a very jovial guy. I like to laugh, and when things strike me as funny, I don't hide the fact that…

Funny

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'Animal' was my nickname in high school.

Animal

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Actors basically do their thing on the set, and then you put all the pieces together, switch them around, and maybe put…

Actors

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I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

Absolute

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I am such a great gamer that seven-year-olds kick my butt.

Am

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I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually…

Cake

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We had a thing there where you could turn in - it was some sort of recycling program - the bottle caps…

Looking

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That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship…

Guy

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Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn…

Casts

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If you got a stuntman that can do it better than me, go do it. But if they can't do it better…

Better

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It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

Actors

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I was ecstatic when 'The Walking Dead' came along. Merle Dixon was so perfectly adapted for me.

Adapted

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Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

Around

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As the actor, you can't be worried about the scene that you're going to playing two days from now. You think about…

Actors

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I hope there are 10 sequels to the 'Guardians' movie!

Guardians

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I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's…

Agree

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I would have loved to have been on 'The Walking Dead' longer, but it didn't happen.

Dead

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I like horror and sci-fi almost equally, but I watch more sci-fi than horror. Does that mean I like sci-fi more than…

Horror

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Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't…

Actors

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I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

Apocalypse

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You forget about it, after awhile. You forget that you even have it on. It becomes part of you. You get used…

Bothered

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I did 'Slither,' so I've done seven hours in the makeup chair. So two hours for zombie makeup is like nothing. That's…

Crazy

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