Diego Klattenhoff Quotes
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I can't tell you how good it is to go from 'Homeland' to be lucky enough to find 'The Blacklist' at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left.
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In Canada, the only weapons you have are for hunting.
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I'm not one of these actors who's out of touch with reality, put it that way.
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For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.
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I would love to go off and do a movie with Judd Apatow or do another 'Mean Girls,' but to me, it's whatever the story is.
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I'm a jeans, T-shirt, boots kind of guy.
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I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.
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I'm extremely patriotic. I'll always be Canadian.
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I got two older brothers and two younger sisters, and we grew up in the country, and we were a little feral. So as long as the car didn't end up in the rhubarb and you didn't get caught for doing whatever you were doing, you were fine.
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It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.
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Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.
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You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.
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Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.
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In Nova Scotia, there are some definite down-home accents, and it's funny because you can go to Sydney, and one guy is from North Sydney, and you can't understand a thing he's saying, or Glace Bay or wherever.
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You have to get the casting right. You have to get the people behind it. Your director might not be the right director for the project. And then, it has to test and those people in that room, wherever they are, have to turn those buttons the right way at the right time.
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You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.
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I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning.
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To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.
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I'd like to get back home to Nova Scotia more, but thankfully, with technology you can call and text and FaceTime. But physically being in Toronto or Nova Scotia... there's nothing like it.
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I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.
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I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.
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I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.
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People are amazed that I'm Canadian and I don't have this crazy accent.
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A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.