Anthony Zerbe Quotes

United States, Actor
May 20, 1936

Anthony Jared Zerbe is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. Notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend; as a corrupt gambler in Farewell, My Lovely; as Abner Devereaux in Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park; as villain Milton Krest in the James Bond film Licence to Kill; Rosie in The Turning Point; Roger Stuart in The Dead Zone; Admiral Dougherty in Star Trek: Insurrection and Councillor Hamann in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the energy of these young people. They're the next generation, and what they have is very representative of how I felt when I was 19 or 20 or so. I'm really happy to be with them.

Anthony Zerbe
- People
- Happy
- Energy
Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.

Anthony Zerbe
- Work

I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'

Anthony Zerbe
- Mother
- Serious
- Cold
I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.

Anthony Zerbe
- Home
That's how it is with people—nobody cares how it works as long as it works.

Anthony Zerbe
- People
- Works
- Cares
I think one year I was responsible for 163 screen deaths. That was a pretty good year for me, although it seems better than it actually was at a glance; 72 of those deaths were accounted for in one show.

Anthony Zerbe
- Good
- Pretty
I hate sleeping. I figured, I've slept the first eleven years of my life away, so now I'm just making up for it.

Anthony Zerbe
- Life
- Sleeping
- Making Up
These machines keep us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? The power to give life, and the power to end it

Anthony Zerbe
- Alive
- Kill
- Machines