Steve Valentine Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
October 26, 1966

Steve Valentine is a Scottish-American actor, musician, and magician who has performed on stage and screen but who is best known for his role as the eccentric Nigel Townsend on NBC's crime drama Crossing Jordan and as Harry Flynn in the critically acclaimed PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves as well as the voice of Alistair in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise. He also starred in the Disney XD sitcom I'm in the Band as Derek Jupiter until its 2011 cancellation.

Also known as Musician

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

Steve Valentine
- Actor
- Wanted
- Supermarket
My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

Steve Valentine
- World
- Get Back
- Rock Band

I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!

Steve Valentine
- Passion
- Books
- Mythology
When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

Steve Valentine
- People
- Magic
- Expect
I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

Steve Valentine
- Proud
- Accent
- Scottish
I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

Steve Valentine
- Magic
- Acting
- Audience
My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.

Steve Valentine
Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.

Steve Valentine
- Stress
- Screaming
- Asleep