Top 35 Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes

I thank every bully I ever had because that’s the only reason I’m here. I learned how to not be affected by it and triumph over it, and that made me – again, if I had any success whatsoever, it’s because these people made fun of me.

It’d be cool to chipmunk-ize ‘The Virgin Suicides’ soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

I’ve had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I’m just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I’m the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Being on a TV show is incredibly daunting.

I’m very similar to the way I was when I was 5.

I would love to be on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ I’d love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked ‘Twin Peaks.’ If I had a time machine I’d be in that.

I love the holidays – any holiday – but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.

I like haunted things.

When I watch movies – when I watch ‘Star Wars’ – you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.

I’ve always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

A fantastic actor in a scene that’s just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks – correct music, slowly pushing in – that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I’ve always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

I looked like a ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Goomba. It’s arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

I remember a kid throwing an orange at the back of my head in Spanish class and calling me four-eyes, and I remember saying, I said, ‘That’s true, and I have two more eyes than you.’ I felt like it was better. If I have four eyes, I’m twice as good as you.

I’m as happy entertaining one person as I am entertaining a million people.

It feels, to me, when you’re with someone you really love, you never look at your phone.

I am weird that I love auditioning.

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I’m serious! In ‘Bambi,’ the mother dies, but you don’t see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see ‘Bambi’ alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything – stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts – I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I’ll, like, die. So throughout my life I’ve always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I’ve been trained to do that.

I’m happy every day that I get up and I’m alive.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

I never thought I’d be making a living off of acting – it’s still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

I’m a control freak, and anytime I direct something, I try to make it as homemade and handmade as possible. I feel like that’s my favorite type of filmmaking, where you can see the seams, and it doesn’t feel like a swiftly produced, whole seeky-eyed event.

I’ve always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you’re doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

I’m not the best singer.

I get really sad when people say, ‘I’m no good. I haven’t been cast in a pilot.’ It doesn’t mean you’re not good; it just means someone hasn’t seen you yet. It doesn’t mean that in real life you’re not the greatest actor.

Literally, my first audition after ‘The Life Aquatic’ was for the ‘Criminal Minds’ pilot.

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

I know when an actor goes in to audition, if they don’t get the part, it’s not because they’re a bad actor at all; it’s because it’s not quite the right fit.

I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep.

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I’m like, ‘Oh man, I don’t know anything.’ The only thing I’d ever technically studied was filmmaking.

My favourite actors have always been the character actors.