Top 33 Mark Pellegrino Quotes

I feel like I’ve lived four or five lifetimes.

‘Star Trek’ was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And ‘Twilight Zone’ is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from ‘Being Human’ sit down and have marathons to get our little ‘Twilight Zone’ fix.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it’s easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

I believe that much of Hollywood is confused about Israel.

With any role I play, I find out what the human problem is first.

The great thing about Satan is it’s kind of like Hamlet. Everyone puts their own signature on it in a way, whether it’s Al Pacino or little old me.

I have a little Honda Del Sol that I just refuse to get rid of.

I think L.A. actors don’t have much continuity, so you kind of have to force the issue by doing plays and putting up scenes and staying in class.

Israel is a force of good in the world.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They’re metaphors for the human condition.

Growing up, I used to watch ‘Happy Days,’ ‘Laverne & Shirley,’ ‘All in the Family.’ Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, ‘McMillan and Wife’ and ‘Columbo.’

I’ve done projects where I’ve read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

I’ve always been a huge supporter of the only democracy in the Middle East.

There’s a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it’s kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible – some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever – may be coming around the corner.

What’s great about Vasquez Rocks is that they filmed several ‘Star Trek’ episodes there.

I kind of got really, really into ‘Hill Street Blues’ when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of ‘Hill Street Blues’ that day.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

I always approach any character I do as being right.

My wife and I are connoisseurs of films but in opposite directions. She’s a connoisseur of really good, classy foreign films. I’m a connoisseur of really bad, cheesy horror movies – so-bad-it’s-good horror movies.

You can’t get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad.

I hope maybe ‘The Returned,’ in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make people not take for granted things.

I’ve been going to ‘Supernatural’ conventions, so they tend to be big ‘Lost’ fans and big ‘Supernatural’ fans, but it’s usually for both of those. Walking on the street, people are really, really into ‘Lost.’ But on the conventions circuit, it’s Lucifer.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are ‘Twilight’-ish with metrosexual guys.

The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there’s a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

Villains have to be passionate enough to say to themselves, ‘I will do anything.’ It’s a certain type of personality that in life, for me, is not the way I live. Because you can’t live in a society that way.

What we get in the States is a pro-Palestinian point of view.

Each of my roles affects different dimensions of my life.

There’s no hero without a villain.

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it’s okay to eat your neighbor.

My wife turns me onto shows. I do end up watching them. She has to drag me in there, and when she does, I enjoy it. ‘Glee’ was one of those things for the first year, especially – I got into that. I would sit down with a glass of wine and get into that. I even have a ‘Glee’ CD in my car.

I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don’t like the running zombies, but I dig the infected thing. I think that’s a scarier incorporation of an element into the genre.