Words matter. These are the best Boyd Holbrook Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.
I think Jack White is pretty dope. He’s a little bit more crisp than me in his approach; he’s always in a suit; he’s always sharp. He’s always cleaned up.
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.
In this business, you’re dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I’m over getting torn up about that.
I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, ‘What do you do?’ He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.
I actually moved to upstate New York to the country.
I love hats. I love vests. I do like to look sharp.
The audience is already doing so much, so I don’t make them work any harder.
You don’t want to play the same role twice.
You’re constantly working and missing meals. You’re away from your family, and you’re doing it for, like, eight months.
I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, ‘What is a stroke?’ I didn’t really know. It’s okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.
I think, in any sort of medium, repetition makes you better at your trade.
Love is the prize in life.
For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you’re off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.
I’d seen Jose Padilha’s ‘Elite Squad 1’ and ‘2’, and I’d seen his documentary, ‘Bus 174’.
For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.
I’ve never read a comic book in my life.
I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called ‘Slam’. It’s about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.
With ‘Little Accidents’, I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological makeup of what happens when you have a stroke or what carbon monoxide poisoning does to your body.
You don’t really have to dress a ton of actors. You don’t really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.
I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called ‘Earn to Learn,’ where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift – midnight to eight A.M. – and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn’t jump that high.
Skinny jeans and an extra big t-shirt. Ugh, I cannot stand that. It looks like an idiot: it’s just proportionately wrong. And the super, super, super, super, super, super, super skinny jeans. I don’t think you can get anything done when you’re wearing clothes that tight.
It’s so funny how it’s impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.
