Top 25 Diego Klattenhoff Quotes

I grew up working on farms. You’d do anything for money. You’d pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you’d cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

People didn’t stop me before for a guest spot that I did on ‘Smallville.’ Nothing against ‘Smallville,’ but people didn’t freak out in traffic to tell me they love my show.

To be an actor wasn’t something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.

Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.

I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York, and every day, it’s amazing.

In Canada, the only weapons you have are for hunting.

I can’t tell you how good it is to go from ‘Homeland’ to be lucky enough to find ‘The Blacklist’ at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left.

I don’t know – to be honest, I don’t really model myself after anybody.

People are amazed that I’m Canadian and I don’t have this crazy accent.

Cable is a great medium. It’s something I respond to. I’m not doing sitcoms. People don’t find me funny. That’s just the way it is.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

It’s all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It’s like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

I seem to – knock on wood – land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that’s kind of a good thing.

I’ve been really fortunate to be associated with all these great shows.

You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.

I’m a jeans, T-shirt, boots kind of guy.

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.

I’m extremely patriotic. I’ll always be Canadian.

You have to get the casting right. You have to get the people behind it. Your director might not be the right director for the project. And then, it has to test and those people in that room, wherever they are, have to turn those buttons the right way at the right time.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren’t a whole lot of rules.

You’re always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can’t look at anybody and think ‘I want to be Damian Lewis’ – I’d be setting myself up for failure.

Charlotte is a very interesting place – I’m Canadian, but I’ve lived in Toronto, Vancouver, and I’ve been living here in L.A. for years.

In Nova Scotia, there are some definite down-home accents, and it’s funny because you can go to Sydney, and one guy is from North Sydney, and you can’t understand a thing he’s saying, or Glace Bay or wherever.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

There’s two sides to the sword. It’s like, for as many people that love you, there’s all the people out there who hate you.