David Morse Quotations

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles.

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

I have so many people who still talk to me about The Long Kiss Goodnight, about that being one of their favorite movies, and it really was a fun movie.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

I thought, "I don't want to be the only unfunny guy in this movie. I really would like to be somehow involved in the comedy if I'm going to do it."

The real future of the Hispanic targeted media and advertising is in English.

I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

Philadelphia is my home. I felt homeless for quite a while. In LA, so much revolves around show business, I never felt it was a very balanced life.

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

Idaho is not substantially different than the rest of the nation. What I think this data shows is that across the board, across the country, people without health insurance, are sicker and less likely to get the care they need. And when they do get care, their condition is much worse.

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

Given the proximity of our Long Beach branch to increasing truck traffic in and around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Juan's background handling cargo and trucking liability claims makes a perfect fit,

He didn't hardly ever wear a hat around here,

Juries will put the evidence in the context that is deserved, ... As a rule, I have confidence in the intelligence and wisdom of the jury.

We are not promoting any agenda on how to fix the problem, but we want people to contact their representatives and impress upon them the need to address the problem.

The problem of Americans lacking health insurance is worsening. Two years ago, there were 43 million uninsured. Now there are 46 million.

We?re not making any compromises to go faster. It?s a frame of mind. You can?t think about the clock.

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

There's something wrong there, because if he was supposed to put 1,000 miles on it, I don't know when the hell he had the time to do it,

There's a different kind of satisfaction in helping a director achieve, you know, something like The Green Mile, which I thought was pretty terrific.

I've tried to let the work I do speak.

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.

Young urbanites spend a lot of money--a lot more than they have. This generation is very, very materialistic compared to prior generations. It's not about spirituality and self-realization like the '60s. It's much more about having stuff as an expression of who you are as a person.

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I try to do things I haven't been able to before.

For me, I'm doing my job, just like we were doing our job all along. He's got to change his mind.

For a full examination of the truth, you ought to be able to take in the context of a person's past behavior to explain current behavior, ... Among the most egregious crimes are sex offenses against children.

It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.

I've had roles as a computer and as a criminally insane man. These kinds of roles set you free because they're not close to you.

I've grown up doing repertory theatre where I've gotten to do all kinds of roles, and then there I was cast on St. Elsewhere for six years.

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

There was an actual script, but when you would get in the room and start shooting, there was no rehearsal in the room or wherever you were.

Implicitly when they make that request there's an expectation that it will be paid back,

I'm very involved in the family's daily life. I drive the kids to school. I do father-son overnights. I do all the cooking when I'm home.

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.