Quotes by Denis O'hare - Page 1

Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Comic Con
Crazy
Kind
Special
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Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Century
Directors
Michael
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I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Forever
High School
School
Dracula
Vampires
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Filled
Notebooks
Quite A While
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I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Accents
Born
Detroit
Missouri
Born I Was Born I Was Raised
Stock
Trades
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I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?
Denis O'hare / Actor
Painter
Talented
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Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Evil
Describe
Simplistic
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I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'
Denis O'hare / Actor
Men
Assassins
Cabaret
Dancing
Enjoyed
Hate
Wither
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Free Time
Moved
New York City
Public Library
Center
Lincoln
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I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Armstrong
Confession
Great Book
Biography
Jag
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I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Happiness
Character
Form
Thinking
Meaning
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For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Hearing
Iliad
Mean
Meant To Be
Stories
Determines
Import
Ultimately
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If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.
Denis O'hare / Actor
New York
Bicycle
Cab
Hitting
Riding
Taxi
Taxi Cabs
Yelling
Me City New
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I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Boxes
Decided
Theater
Major
Poem
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Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Instance
Standing
Suppose
Standing Up
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You have to learn to express differently. Whenever I do TV or film, I ask if I can see the shot to see, to see if it's full body or a close-up. That helps me understand how to communicate.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Communicate
Shot
Close-Up
Express
Helps
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I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.
Denis O'hare / Actor
All Time
Fairy
Latter
Tales
Wilde
Brothers
Fairy Tales
Giant
Oscar
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We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Heart
Phones
Scary
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There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Broadway
Musical
Time Best Money
Nowhere
Best Time Money
Mention
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I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Anonymity
Maintaining
Reluctant
Time Long Long Time
Time Done Long
Once A Week
Recognized
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We see images of people being beheaded on TV. That's not a thing that you see all the time. That's a different kind of scary. Unfortunately, some of the scary stuff is political, and that's a change from our past.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Past
People
Scary
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I somewhat resist the whole gay rights-vampire rights metaphor because it is fraught with problems. I don't want to be seen as a gay man as a blood-sucking killer. I don't think it is the way to win hearts and minds.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Metaphor
Rights
Somewhat
Fraught
Hearts
Minds
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I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's in the tradition of 'Urinetown,' kind of - but that's a pretty small tradition. It's possible that it can fail.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Blind
Big Thing
Works
Fail
Farm
Guess
None
Pig
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I received a phone call; my agent got a phone call from Ryan Murphy saying he wanted to talk to me... And he basically outlined 'American Horror Story' for me and said that there's a character named Larry the Burn Guy, and I'd like you to play it.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Character
Horror
Horror Stories
Larry
Murphy
Phones
Agent
Basically
Named
Burn
Phone
Phone Call
Received
Ryan
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Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Awards
Blood
Mean
Range
Baffling
Production
Production Values
True Blood
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Funnily enough, I was a big fan of the show and had been watching it - along with everybody else - and had never imagined that I would be on it. You kind of look at shows and think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that one.' But I didn't really see myself on 'True Blood.'
Denis O'hare / Actor
Blood
Big Fan
Everybody Else
True Blood
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'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Being Honest
Buried
Iliad
Achieved
Wars
Maker
Solved
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I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Allegiance
Blood
Episodes
Feet
Hooked
Bootleg
Copy
Ended
Irrevocably
Switch
Third
True Blood
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I'm 48, and I have been in love with vampires since I was six. I was born in 1962, so I've been through three or four waves of vampires. When I was growing up, we had vampire shows and movies. We were still dealing with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the old Christopher Lee vampires.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Vampire
Christopher
Dealing
Lee
Waves
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I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.'' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Blood
Fans
Feet
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I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Bunch
Chicago
Mainstream
Northwestern
Me People Doing
Me People Real
Ended
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I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Equity
Tables
Thinking
Years
Always Me Doing
About A Year
Ended
Finally
Hire
Waited
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I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Men
Argument
Book
Constitution
Evolution
Fantastic
Species
Way
Charles
Darwin
Richard
Honest Men
Jag
Origin
Plain
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When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Demon
Racing
Alexander
David
Dressing
Dressing Room
Empire
Hare
Paul
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My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Wisdom
Chicago
Prairie
Radio
Salesman
Theater
Award
Bridge
Crystal
Won
Exists
Gig
Hired
Paying
Promptly
Sets
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It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Blood
Cartoon
Rolling
Vanity Fair
Zeitgeist
Cover
Cultural
Fair
Major
New Yorker
Rolling Stone
Stone
True Blood
Yorker
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Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Creation
Ownership
Staying
Empowers
Monologue
Screenplay
Standup
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I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Ancient
Aspect
Creatures
Fairy
Fright
Interesting
Love Is
Monsters
Psychological
Tales
Thinking
Alien
Deeply
Fairy Tales
Supernatural
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And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'
Denis O'hare / Actor
Kids
Aspect
Blood
Different Things
Heart
Somewhere Else
Encounter
True Blood
Universes
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I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Blood
Community
Critical
Disappointing
Genre
Point Of View
Views
Segment
True Blood
Types
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It's highly dishonorable to ever quit a production. I never have done it, and I can't imagine ever doing it. However, I have been in productions before where, on the first in the read-through, you feel that someone is in trouble, and indeed, actors have been let go shortly after read-throughs. I've seen that happen before.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Dishonorable
Productions
Indeed
Feel Doing Done
Let Go
Quit
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Between New York and L.A., and all of us who are actors, I feel like we're just one big, cast repertory company, all running back and forth between the coasts and between different shows. There is a wealth of great character actors, who show up, here and there, on different shows. I love the fact that we're allowed to do that.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Just One
Wealth
Love Great Character
Forth
Repertory
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Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Yoga
Behavior
Danger
Losing
Temper
Admit
Eccentricities
Phobias
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Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I'm in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we're all going to be in for a long boring evening.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Drawbacks
Evening
Flicker
Peculiar
Perspective
Stuck
For Example
Medium
Strengths
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When you think of Grimm's fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They're so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think about five-year-olds reading that stuff. Even 'Little Red Riding Hood' is a really freaky story. Grandma is gobbled up by a wolf, and the wolf is going to eat the girl. That's scary stuff.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Bloody
Disturbing
Fairy
Freaky
Grandma
Hood
Psychological
Riding
Scary
Tales
Deeply
Fairy Tales
Wolf
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I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on videotape, watched them and was instantly into it. During the first episode, I was like, 'Eh.' By the time I got to the second one, I couldn't watch them fast enough. I got on the phone that night, called Time Warner cable and ordered HBO right then.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Feet
Hbo
Night
Phones
Big Fan
Bootleg
Watched
By The Time
Time Enough Night
Copy
Phone
Eh
Episode
Instantly
Ordered
Videotape
Warner
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