Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll
Roscoe Carroll, better known as Rocky Carroll is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Joey Emerson on the FOX comedy-drama Roc as Dr. Keith Wilkes on the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope, and as NCIS Director Leon Vance on the CBS drama NCIS and its spinoffs Los Angeles and New Orleans. He also played a supporting role in the 1995 thriller film Crimson Tide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 July 1963
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.
I always love the holiday episodes, because you really get to see everybody at their best.
My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'
When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.
There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you're sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That's where drama comes from.
There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.
As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.
As an actor, you can believe that you are the reason for a show's success, but these things are a brand name now. They're like Coca-Cola. It's like, with or without you, people are still gonna drink it.
Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility.
I went from a sitcom to a hospital drama, feature films. I've kind of been living the actor's dream. I'm not associated with one role or one medium. You're lucky if you're associated with one hit show.
When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end.
We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.
I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.
New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10.