Top 35 Thomas Gibson Quotes

When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn’t have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal – having lost a few good ones in New York – and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around the city.

I joke that, ‘Give us forty-two minutes, and we’ll get your bad guy for you.’

There is a fine line between something that’s gratuitous, that’s unnecessary.

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

By the fourth or fifth take, I had gotten over the ‘Oh my God, it’s a Stanley Kubrick movie’ and got around to doing a little bit of acting.

You might want to be able to close a chapter of your life, but I don’t believe that you ever do completely.

I always had a lot of respect for the hard work and the hours and the dedication it takes to do these jobs but even more now, yes. The fact that we’ve gotten the opportunity to go to the FBI and meet the people who do this for real and also have consultations with them.

I’ve always said that ‘Dharma and Greg’ is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ meets ‘The Odd Couple.’

You know, it’s nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there’s still a wall of cameras between you and them.

I’ve been a Mac guy for 20 years. Even if I’m having trouble with the latest MacBook Pro, I’m still a Mac guy.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

I will talk to people who say they loved ‘Tales of the City’ or ‘Far and Away’ or ‘Love and Human Remains’ or ‘Barcelona.’

I still want to find some place to play ‘Hamlet,’ and if ‘Far and Away’ helps me do that, that would be nice.

I almost ran into a construction worker driving the other day. He may have planned to scream at me or something, but he saw me and said, ‘Hey, you’re that guy on ‘Dharma & Greg.’

I don’t really believe in closure. That’s something that writers talk about or people wished that they had.

Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would’ve kept playing, except I realized that girls don’t watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.

One of the things that I’d like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you know, a rep season for a summer where you did two or three Shakespeares, and you’d do a couple of either new plays or classic plays, and you did a different one almost every night.

When I’m home, I’ve got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don’t have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.

I think it’d be a lot of fun to jump back into the comedy world.

The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.

There’s nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.

I work out religiously. It’s great for my back. It’s great for my core. I’ve been exposed to lots of exercise regimens and movement classes as an actor, so I understand the importance of stretching and staying limber, but Pilates is what’s really spoken to me. It works everything out.

I never was able to be a Lakers fan – I’m more of a Spurs fan.

I remember driving home from a movie – it wasn’t ‘Halloween’ but another one, maybe the original ‘Omen’ – and I dropped my friends off, and it was also broad daylight, and yet I was sure that, like, Damien was in the backseat or something like that.

I know there’s a CSI game. I’ve never seen it, though, so I’m not really sure. I hope it’s interesting. I hope that they’ve done a good job making it, but because I’ve never seen it, the jury is still out on whether it’s interesting or not. But it is funny to imagine that it’s been turned into a game.

Prague is not rife in Asian culture.

I played a doctor on ‘Chicago Hope’ 15 years or so ago, and I did go and watch an open heart surgery.

If you actually saw your favorite movie star who is also a great classical actor doing ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Macbeth’ or ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ it would be a great thing and a great thing for kids to get interested in language.

I am an optimist, and I try to think that the light will always prevail in any situation, so it doesn’t really make me sad about humanity because I think, deep down, everybody is full of love and light.

There’s nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach.

In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can’t forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.

I do love golf.

You can’t substitute the act of making people laugh. It’s definitely something that actors like to do.

I’ve tried my very best to keep all the balls in the air and be home.

Moving on is not closure. It’s not neat, and it’s not about turning the page. It is about moving on, but it doesn’t mean that you’ve left something behind.