Michiel Huisman Quotations

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.

When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

Stepping on set is always overwhelming.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.

I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

I respect motorcycles so much. They've come such a long way. It's amazing!

I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.