Quotes by John Carroll Lynch - Page 1

I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.
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Exorcist
Horror
Horror Movies
Walked
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If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.
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Costume
Necessarily
Rehearse
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I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.
John Carroll Lynch /
Apology
Clowns
Owe
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I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.
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Instant
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I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.
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Regional
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'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.
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Fargo
Turnaround
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Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.
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Breathing
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You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.
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Wonderful
Fooling
Motives
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I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in D.C. and started working as an understudy at the Arena.
John Carroll Lynch /
Arena
Catholic
Fine Arts
Bachelor
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I heard from other people on Twitter that they're very excited about Twisty Halloween costumes, and all I can think is, 'You people are nuts!'
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Costumes
Halloween
Nuts
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Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.
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Famous
Fame
Purpose
Talent
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As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.
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Capable
Horrific
Judgement
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Psychological horror I've always appreciated, like 'Rosemary's Baby.' The slasher movies and the grotesque movies are the ones that I've really been off for a while.
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Appreciated
Grotesque
Horror
Psychological
Slasher
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In a world where a lot of people's sense of self is dominated by how many people are following their Twitter feed, what does fame really do, and why is it important?
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Fame
Following
Self
Twitter
World Important People
Feed
Dominated
World People Important
How Many People
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Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
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Movies
Grotesque
Halloween
Horror
Suspense
Violence
Picture
Earned
Horror Movies
Maintain
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My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?
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Fall
Over It
Stupid
Subway
Afraid
Walk
Jump
Pocket
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Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'
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Evil
Opinion
Participating
Wonder
Actions
In My Opinion
Insofar
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I chose John Carroll Lynch as my SAG name when I was 19 years old. I was working in D.C., and I got my SAG card by doing a first aid film for the Red Cross called 'Bleeding Control'. They had a union contract.
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Bleeding
Red
Aid
Card
Chose
Contract
Cross
John
Union
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I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.'
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Anyone Else
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Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.
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Comedy
Different
Genius
Made
Magic
Midnight
Together
Two
Actor
Run
Charles
Technically
Motivations
Robert
Sets
Skill
Work Together
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I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically.
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Equity
Minneapolis
Me Long Feel
Card
Ceiling
Long Me Feel
Glass
Guthrie
Join
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The fear that you come to a show called 'American Horror Story' with is yours. That being said, I'm glad people are afraid, and I hope that I'm contributing to their fear. I'm really not afraid of my own darkness anymore. I'm not afraid of what I'm capable of.
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Capable
Contributing
Glad
Afraid
Anymore
Yours
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Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.
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Work
Money
Begets
Changed
Mind
Pay
Terrible
Good Money Mind
Feel
Work Good Money
Work Good Mind
Why
Free
Anywhere
Find
Working
Where
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