John Corbett Quotes
Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.
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You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.
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I don't write songs.
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I'm afraid to do theater now.
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When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.
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I'm getting out of acting.
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In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
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I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.
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I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
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I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.
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I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.
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I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.
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Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.
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I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.
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I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.
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I just think you should get married if you want to have some kids.
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Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.
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After I get comfortable, I kind of forget that we're even doing an interview and I say whatever comes to the mind.
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I'm sick of playing romantic leads.
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I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.
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I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.
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Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
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I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.
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I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.
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Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.