Gary Sinise Quotes
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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I study to learn, to be an educated person.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
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'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.