Tom Ellis Quotations

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

We talk about it all the time. We talked about it in the locker room at halftime. We talked about bend but don't break. If they start driving it on us, just keep your composure and get together and eventually stop them, don't let them in the end zone.

I thought Jessie Putnam did an unbelievable job. He just did a great job for his first game playing at inside linebacker. ... Caleb Warren had a real nice game. ... My two inside linebackers did a really nice job.

We, I think, are a really good fit for kids who haven't experienced success at a regular school. They have abilities and talents, but the 'one size fits all' approach hasn't met their needs.

We had a lot of kids with assisted tackles, which means somebody got there first and then we had two or three guys getting there second and just finishing them off. We played good team defense.

We'll rise from the ashes one way or another. We're not an easy community to keep down.

Finally at 3:30 he called me as he was walking back to Brooklyn, ... He was late that morning so he was at the bottom when it was first hit.

We've got a long ways to go, but (Friday) night was a great experience for us to get a win and play well and a lot of kids to get on the field and get varsity experience.

It's getting to be pretty competitive. I do like to think of it as a business, in that we have a product, and we are really proud of the quality of our product. Customer service is a really big thing to us.

It was kind of good (Friday night) to kind of blow the cobwebs off a little bit, score and play well and hopefully get ready for next week.

It's nerve-racking, but exciting. I'm coming back to an area that I'm familiar with. Obviously you're not going to take over a 10-0 team, but I looked for a program that's been successful and the kids want to win, know how to work.

The kids played hard. I'm real proud of the defense; they played extremely hard.

I hope the beam with the hands shows the resiliency of the United States, ... People got past this incident and any other that will come.

I'm sure that Jesse, like any other 84-year-old, would be having health problems. He isn't as alert as he was. But I feel like he understands what is going on and is able to carry on a conversation. I feel very hopeful about his progress.

I really believe the key to the entire game for us defensively was starting the game out on offense like we did. We took the ball and drove it down the field deep into their territory twice, which just totally throws the field position in our favor. I felt like the kids kind of fed off that a little bit.

He's not a vegetable, but he can only go for a couple of hours and he has extreme fatigue where he has to lie down and rest, ... This is higher-profile because it happened to be a CEO making $800,000 a year. The fact of the matter is, these injuries are occurring every single day.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing and then more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

As an actor, I enjoy variety. That's a big thing for me.

If I'm going to put my name to something and commit to something that's going to take up a lot of my time, it has to be something that I know is going to be enjoyable and worth my while. Otherwise, what's the point?

One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for multiple seasons, should it be successful, and in theory, you want it to be successful, but you also want to be doing something that you're enjoying.

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."