Top 25 Patrick J. Adams Quotes

I was fired from an NBC sitcom called ‘Friends With Benefits.’ I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn’t even want to audition, and kept thinking, ‘This isn’t funny at all.’

I’m a Virgo; I naturally love to organize things.

I believe in picking a strong ending.

I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we’re telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we’re celebrating.

‘Suits’ is ‘Suits.’ It’s grown and changed and evolved in lots of ways that I’m super proud of, but as an actor on a show like this, you try and make it something other than what it is sometimes.

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

To get a job as a blackjack dealer, you have to be able to count very quickly. Obviously, you need to do at least math, adding up to 21 very quickly.

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

The entire time I was up shooting ‘Suits,’ I was running back to my trailer to help get ‘Nine Circles’ produced. It’s a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.

I actually dealt blackjack for a summer.

I’ve definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about.

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of ‘Suits.’ It’s broken into such small pieces.

We’d get into trouble a lot in school, and I could sweet talk my way out of it. I was really a charmer: I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down, and within 10 minutes, we’d be, like, talking about some movies or something.

I just love shows that don’t hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that’s something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you’ve had them tailored.

I’m terrible at languages. I’m trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, ‘How did you do this?’ Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn’t a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we’d be, like, talking about some movies or something.

Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn’t grow up in the business, I didn’t know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did ‘Old School,’ I was like, ‘I want to do this!’

It’s the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it’s clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you’re telling these stories you can’t throw these people together immediately.

What’s really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

One of my first jobs was on a show called ‘Cold Case.’