William Atherton Quotes

United States, Actor
July 30, 1947

William Robert Atherton Knight Jr. (born July 30, 1947), known professionally as William Atherton, is an American actor. Atherton was born in Orange, Connecticut, the son of William Robert Atherton Sr. and Myrtle (maiden name Robison) Knight. He studied acting at the Drama School at Carnegie Tech and graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1969.

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.

William Atherton
- Boys
- Urban
- Adopted
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

William Atherton
- Creative
- Antagonist

Whenever you do a movie, it's a culture shock. Who is it? Where are you? What are you doing? Who are these people? Where are you going now? It's kind of like how somebody describes private flying: It's hours of monotony punctuated by moments of stark terror. That's what it's like anywhere in the world, whether you're in Texas or Bucharest.

William Atherton
- People
- World
- Culture
It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

William Atherton