Words matter. These are the best Lee Pace Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that’s where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.
I love that you work out relationships with people as you’re filming just to get something real to play on screen.
I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I’m kind of clumsy.
When you play the king of elves and alien warlords, little me is very uninteresting. But, at the same time, actors feel this obligation to be transparent, and I truly don’t understand the point.
I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.
I’ve dated men. I’ve dated women. I don’t know why anyone would care.
With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don’t really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I’m going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.
A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.
It’s important to complete things and finish what you started.
Who cares about people’s personal lives? I mean, honestly. How are you then able to disappear into a role?
I don’t really get recognized.
What I enjoy most about ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is that extended cut. To be able to sit there on a Sunday afternoon and watch ‘The Lord of the Rings’ from beginning to end is pretty fun.
I am a huge Michael Jackson fan.
‘ Daisies’ is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It’s kind of morbid, you know. But there’s a love to it. There’s a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it – I don’t know; it’s a good thing to put out there in the world, so I’m glad people responded.
It is a total treat to get to work with James Cromwell.
When I was a kid, I played ‘Super Mario Bros’ and ‘Megaman 2’ and ‘3’ for hours and hours, trying to convince my mother they were good for me because they helped my hand-eye coordination. They influenced a whole generation of people to make computers what they are now, through problem-solving and so on.
The roles I think about and can’t stop thinking about – on the subway, when I’m riding my bike, when I’m running – are the things I connect to.
It’s one of the things I love about my job: it’s my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.
Trust me: if I had something interesting to say about myself, I would.
I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!
The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it’s been through no design of my own.
It’s not my business to think about the business; it’s my business to think about the character. Sure, there have been times in my career where I wished I was more popular or more this or more that – but that’s just stupid.
