Paul Sparks Quotes
-
When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story.
-
As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
-
I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.
-
If I was able to be omniscient and look at my career objectively, I'd be very happy.
-
No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
-
There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.
-
I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.
-
I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'
-
As far as the destiny of the character, I just play them until they're gone. I try not to get too involved.
-
I think that's kind of nice that there's this kind of inherent respect between runners who do a marathon. People respect somebody who has done it, and I will do anything to get some respect because I don't get a lot respect in my life.
-
Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard.