Quotes by Dean Norris - Page 1

Well, I was a drama kid.
Dean Norris / Actor
Kids
Drama
Wells
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I don't have a lot of downtime.
Dean Norris / Actor
Downtime
Lot
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If I have a day off I will play golf.
Dean Norris / Actor
Days Off
Golf
Play
Play Golf
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Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.
Dean Norris / Actor
Anti Hero
Hero
Looks
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I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.
Dean Norris / Actor
Cia
Ems
Fbi
Lapd
Play
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When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.
Dean Norris / Actor
College
Comedy
Pranks
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The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.
Dean Norris / Actor
Guy
Looks
Way
Acts
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I think actors who take things too far are funny.
Dean Norris / Actor
Actors
Thinking
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If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.
Dean Norris / Actor
Happy
Smile
Couple
Force
Minutes
Feel
Within
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Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.
Dean Norris / Actor
Awards
Bad Guys
Fun
Play
Winning
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You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
Dean Norris / Actor
Men
Gone
Harvard
Midwest
Personality
Shapes
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You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.
Dean Norris / Actor
Coffee
Doughnut
Guarantees
Looks
Cops
Guarantee
Shop
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For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.
Dean Norris / Actor
Dream
Actors
Character
Transitioning
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I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
Dean Norris / Actor
Boxing
College
Contact
High School
School
Belt
Full
Earned
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I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.
Dean Norris / Actor
Jobs
Months
Worry
Month
Tap
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Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.
Dean Norris / Actor
Careers
Knows
Tvs
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When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
Dean Norris / Actor
Comedy
People
Play
Stand Up Comedy
Timing
Would Be
Me People Way
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As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.
Dean Norris / Actor
Uncles
Nephew
Niece
Nine
Thinking
Nephews
Nieces
Quick
Uncle
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I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.
Dean Norris / Actor
Jobs
Acting
Couple
Agent
Literally
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My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
Dean Norris / Actor
Dad
Eras
Good Guy
Guy
Noble
Believed
Narrow
Stood
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My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
Dean Norris / Actor
Dad
College
Harvard
Parent
Ended
Neither
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To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.
Dean Norris / Actor
Guy
Military
Nice
Nice Guy
Environments
Survive
To Survive
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Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.
Dean Norris / Actor
New York
Advantage
Cities
Flight
Harvard
Hotel
Investment
New York City
Poor
Stuff
Me City Day
Free
Audition
Banks
City
Fly
Per
Recruiting
Take Advantage
York
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I don't get a lot of "Hey, Harvard!" stuff. I think a lot of people who don't know me would be surprised to think that I went there. But no, I don't. You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
Dean Norris / Actor
Men
People
Thinking
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When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.
Dean Norris / Actor
Kids
Teacher
Bananas
Fake
Gun
Preschool
Sticks
Teachers
Guns
Pretend
Swords
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The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.
Dean Norris / Actor
Art
Dad
People
Singers
Best Art Good
Concept
Ultimately
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I talked to people that I'd done theater with, older actors and stuff. There's a lot of people who go into the business, and they must think they're good, or they wouldn't be in it. Why do you think that you're good enough to go into the business and make money at it? So I really wanted to ask myself that question a lot. Because it was an important kind of thing that I was going to do. I really wanted to do it, I loved it, and I thought that I was good enough that I could make money at it. And that's really what it came down to.
Dean Norris / Actor
Important
People
Thinking
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