Words matter. These are the best Anthony Carrigan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve had alopecia since I was 3, so quite a few years. I grew up with it, and it was always very manageable.
I have alopecia. That’s an autoimmune condition. I don’t like to say disease because I don’t feel like I’m diseased. So it’s a condition. And it’s like your immune system is confused. So it attacks the hair follicles, and so your hair falls out.
To clear the air once and for all, I don’t have cancer. I’m not going through chemotherapy. I have alopecia. Alopecia areata, to be exact about it. I love the way that I look; I’m not worried about it.
Actually, one of the fascinating things that I’ve learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.
Oh sure, I really miss the changing seasons, because in Los Angeles you don’t really get that – and I feel like New Yorkers – and, really, all East Coasters – they really earn their good seasons. They earn when the weather’s hot; they earn when the leaves start to change.
Bald guys have been playing the bad guy for a long time, whether it’s pirates, thieves, murderers, or whatnot, so the deck is a little bit stacked against you in that regard.
I can tell you that I like to take a character where everyone may have an idea of what it’s supposed to look like and go in a completely different direction with it. I like to make it my own and make it very personal to me, which will end up probably looking completely different than someone else’s take on it.
There’s a randomness, even if you’re talented. This is a very unforgiving industry that puts you through the ringer. It is not easy by any means, but it’s one of those things that if you have the patience, the perspective, and the talent, it can really take off.
The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.
Even when I was in my 20s, very few of my friends even knew that I had alopecia. I kept it under wraps. I didn’t want to let anyone know, and I didn’t want it to affect my career or the possibility of me getting hired for a job.
