Sam Rockwell Quotes

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• I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.
• I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
• I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.
• My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
• Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted -…
• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
• I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
• I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
• Money is power and power gives you choice.
• I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
• I grew up on films.
• I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years…
• Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is…
• I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or…

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