Words matter. These are the best Dallas Roberts Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you get a job on ‘The Walking Dead’ you imagine you’re going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, ‘Look out!’
I enjoy playing someone who doesn’t show up and say, ‘This is what I am, and this is what I’m about,’ but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, ‘Really? Is that what’s going on?’
In the acting community in New York we call ‘Law & Order’ ‘grad school,’ because everyone eventually does a ‘Law & Order.’ My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character’s name.
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it’s one of those tick boxes in a career.
It’s funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there’s a whole rap of things they won’t watch until they’re 16 or 17.
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
Yes, it’s annoying that Hamlet doesn’t kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn’t be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I’m in.
I’m from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I’ve never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, ‘I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.’
If you’re into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into ‘The Good Wife.’ If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out ‘The Walking Dead.’ Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they’re just pretty.
I find that on serialized television it’s wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don’t do what she would do in the situation. I’m always like, ‘Well, she has to do that because that’s what the story is.’
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it’s good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you’re reacting to something that’s been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
