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  • Actor
  • born 1950
  • 13 quotes

Brad Dourif, an actor (born 1950), is quoted 13 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Influences, Good Influences, Influence and Lucky.

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I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked on alot. And there is something about Grima, he has been picked on when he was a kid, he (Grima) is so distrustful, he is so easily corrupted, He is so ugly, and he wants somebody, he wants to love somebody, and he can't, because nobody will have him.

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