Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes
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I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and so as an actor, I really wanted to do something as far from that as I could.
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I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.
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I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
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I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.
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I've been kicking around this business for a long time.
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Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.
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I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.
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Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film an action movie here where you're outside, and you're running around all day.
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I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.
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I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.
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My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.
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I love the challenge of having an audience know what you're thinking without having to tell the audience what you're thinking.
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'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.
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In a Western, you don't over-explain.
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I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.
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It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.
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In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.
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I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.
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To do this movie in a watered-down fashion or have these characters be watered down wouldn't have been near as effective. It wouldn't have been staying true to what this 'Watchmen' phenomenon is.
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I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.
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Within a five-month period, I got 'Weeds,' 'Supernatural,' and 'Grey's.' I think a lot of it had to do with luck.
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I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.
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It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.
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I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.