Words matter. These are the best Gary Cole Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
I am also a drummer of sorts. I’ve got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
You always know when something works it’s a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
Christopher Walken could literally read a phone book and fill a theater, and it would be interesting to watch. I’ve often wanted to produce a show and ask him if he’d do that. All week long, he could read the As on Tuesday, the Bs on Wednesday; we’d see how long it would last.
It’s always appealed to me do to something that is whatever ‘steady’ means in this business. That’s what I’ve kind of searched for, because, having a family, it’s the best situation.
I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.
Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
‘Fatal Vision’ was basically the first thing I did on camera.
People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven’t found that to be the case.
Whatever’s in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.
For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words – it doesn’t get much better than that.
‘Office Space’ I loved doing.
There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
A lot of times evil – or, in the case of comedy, stupid – is more interesting than the hero.
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
I’m a huge fan of sports movies.
As soon as you start figuring out what you’re going to do, something will interrupt it.
In Washington, there are jobs that have official titles: chief of staff, campaign manager, director of communications. Then there are all these vague and murky headings over people who are just special consultants or advisers. We really don’t know what their gig is.
When you make a movie, it’s up to so many things and so many people.
If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it’s about Office Space.
I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.
You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I’m so bored with that concept anymore. ‘If only I didn’t do this, I could have done this.’ It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.
There’s a million different ways you can look at a moment.
I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
No matter what era you’re looking at – war affects things in so many different ways.
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.
It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they’ll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism.
Even people who aren’t engaged on the actual battlefield – the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.
I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I’m a huge fan of.
You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn’t take a million years of screen time.
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don’t go back to the silent era.
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don’t have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I’ve done on stage.
Every actor thinks he’s underused – unless he’s a movie star.
