Words matter. These are the best Aaron Stanford Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
I do know that I’ve read somewhere that it’s been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don’t know why that is. You’d think it’d be the opposite. You’d think people would want to escape from it.
I read a lot of war literature.
Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
I’m sure some of the characters in ‘X-Men’ had a lot of physically demanding stuff to do, but my character’s pretty much stand-and-deliver, stand there and throw fire at people. There’s no acrobatics or anything.
Of course, I’m not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
I’ve been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it’s TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don’t know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
I didn’t follow the whole ‘X-Men’ story because it got too complicated. I’d pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I’m saying?
I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that’s for sure.
It’s nice to know when you’re a part of a story, it’s nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
As a fan, when I hear that a film is going to be turned into a television show, I do go to that place immediately of, ‘Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be a waste of time? Why are they doing it?’ It’s ’12 Monkeys,’ and ’12 Monkeys’ is awesome, so I wanted to be a part of it and work on it.
Bruce Dern was fascinating. He’s an amazing character. If you put him in a room at a table, you will sit there for the next five days and listen to everything he has to say and be fascinated by it. He’s great.
I worshiped Judd Nelson in ‘The Breakfast Club’ growing up. I must’ve seen that movie 100 times.
It’s fun playing villains. It’s people who are not held by any moral constraints – or any constraints, for that matter. It’s a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life.
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there’s no solution.
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that’s interesting then we’ll want to do it.
You have to find it in the moment, and that’s one of the challenges of being an actor – especially a film actor – is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There’s no trick to it. You just have to do.
