John Carroll Lynch Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
-
I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
-
Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
-
Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
-
I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
-
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
-
I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
-
There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
-
If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
-
I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
-
I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
-
Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
-
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
-
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
-
I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.
-
I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
-
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
-
I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
-
If you are a great guy off screen but you are a bad actor and are dishonest to your work, then I would not spend my money on you.
-
I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
-
Having been a caregiver more times than I care to count, 'StandWith' lets caregivers and patients easily update their community and post targeted tasks that community members can accept.
-
The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.
-
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.
-
I've seen a lot of horror, but I'm not a horror guy.
