Top 55 Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

I love Bill Murray, but I’m not quite Bill Murray. I wish!

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

Once I got over my initial butterflies, being in the same room and doing a scene with Jimmy Caan was great. I never backed down for one second against him. I loved it. I love those moments. Working with people like that is the greatest joy you can get as an actor.

I’ve become accustomed to playing the good guy – maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what’s going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I’m aware of.

There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.

I love playing a villain. I think that there’s something freeing about that, and it’s a different kind of challenge.

I’ve worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it’s mostly because of their parents.

I didn’t even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.

I’m just a happy guy.

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity’s got zero interest to me.

I grew up with my uncle’s comic books at my grandma’s house, so I’ve always loved my comic book reading.

The last decade has been a little rough, so I’m hoping to start this one on the right foot.

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one’s life. It’s the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you’re doing.

It’s just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I’ve been there.

I’m just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I have this weird allergy where metal can’t touch my skin.

Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he’s a thug. He’s just not a nice guy.

I literally will write Shonda Rhimes, the creator of ‘Grey’s,’ an e-mail once a month or so and just say, ‘Hey, I love you and thank you.’ That was my moment. Because of that, I’m doing ‘Magic City.’

Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it’s hard to film here. It’s hard to film an action movie here where you’re outside, and you’re running around all day.

‘The Exoricist’ and ‘The Shining,’ there is some horrific stuff, and it’s mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.

I think, before ‘Watchmen,’ I was the guy from ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ who’s a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and so as an actor, I really wanted to do something as far from that as I could.

I wasn’t very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

Since Chris Albrecht took over the network, I think more and more people are finding Starz. He made HBO what HBO became, and now he’s doing the same thing at Starz.

I’ve been kicking around this business for a long time.

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don’t bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

I think, as I’ve gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

I go to Comic-Con every year, generally with some project of some sort.

If it’s football season, all things sort of stop. I’m from Seattle, so I’ll watch the Seahawks and whatever other game that day is worthy.

I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

I love the challenge of having an audience know what you’re thinking without having to tell the audience what you’re thinking.

A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.

I can’t say enough about Ireland. I can’t. I’d move there.

If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that’s all I would do. It’s my favorite movie to make. There’s something about being a cowboy.

I’ve got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ That’s the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.

The work I’m doing on ‘Watchmen’ is mind bending and physically just hard.

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

I do some of my best work when I’m dead.

A 12-year-old can watch ‘Spiderman.’ A 12-year-old cannot watch ‘Watchmen.’

I feel like every day I’m exceedingly lucky.

I think the challenge for me in this role is going to be, is there any heart in Negan? For me, I look at that as a challenge as an actor, and that’s the kind of thing that I embrace and really look forward to.

I am a family man at heart.

Persistence pays off.

I don’t think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey’s. Any day, I’ll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

I’m not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I’m not that vain.

I’ve done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it’s raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven’t slept.

I usually play tough guys and stuff like that.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I’m not 20 any more and these people I’ve been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.