Quotes by Jordan Gavaris - Page 1

I'm a bit of a geek, and I really like 'Buffy.'
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Buffy
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TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.
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Mass
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I do a bit of work on my bum, but, like, I don't have a Dylan Bruce bum.
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Dylan
Bruce
Bum
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I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Monotony
Worst Thing
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Even in the face of tragedy, human beings need to find a way to laugh. It's normal. It's life.
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Tragedy
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There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Gratification
Instant
Instant Gratification
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I absolutely believed Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger loved each other in 'Brokeback Mountain.'
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Mountain
Heath
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The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Compassionate
Narcissist
Always Person Never
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I think it's a mistake to say that to be a healthy, well-adjusted person you need a monogamous relationship.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Healthy
Mistake
Thinking
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I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Acting
Hands
Trying
Love Time Will
Directing
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I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Love Work Movies
Consume
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I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Beaten
Work World I Am
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I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Big Movie
Guitar
Hiking
Woodworking
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Television is blue-collar work. You clock in in the morning; you work 12, 13 hours - sometimes 18 hours if you're doing 'Orphan Black.'
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Blue Collar
Clock
Orphan
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I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Prom
Noticed
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I'm a unique person, as everyone is, but none of us has more of a right to existence or a right to specialness or uniqueness than anyone else.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Uniqueness
Anyone Else
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I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Bringing
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I would never call myself an expert on geopolitics. I'm not studied in it. But what I do know is what's right and wrong in terms of treatment of people.
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Treatment
Myself People Never
Right And Wrong
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I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Loneliness
Reveal
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There's a thrill in flying by the seat of your pants - trousers, actually: 'pants' in English means underwear - because most shows don't operate that way. Network shows are repetitive.
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Flying
Pants
Repetitive
Thrill
Trousers
Underwear
Seat
Network
Operate
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From an acting standpoint, you've got to continue to trust your gut because, ultimately, only that will result in a better product, making the audience more happy and resulting in the right payoff.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Payoff
Standpoint
Gut
Resulting
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I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.
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Jessica
Look Up
Looks
Roles
Sissy
Identify
Lee
Tom
Tommy
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I don't know if you guys have ever kissed anybody in real life, but it doesn't always go as planned. It's not always pretty. It doesn't always look like a movie. It usually looks more like 'American Pie.'
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American Pie
Pie
Real Life
Life Always Look
Life Look Real
Planned
You Guys
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Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Microscope
Never Stop
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I started acting professionally when I was about 17. I worked immediately, but a year into it, I did an independent film in Canada, and that started it all. It was proof that maybe I could do this as a career.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Canada
Independent Film
Proof
Immediately
Professionally
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You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.'
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Collectively
Society Black People
Episode
Minority
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I realized there's a difference between creating a character and sustaining a character. The challenge that comes with sustaining a character is that you have this sudden impulse to think about all the things the audience liked.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Impulse
Sustaining
Sudden
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For 'Orphan Black,' all I got was the pilot script, and that was enough for me. I was daydreaming about this part. I kept thinking about how certain scenes were going to play out and how these interactions were going to take place.
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Daydreaming
Orphan
Thinking Black Me
Interactions
Pilot
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I'm a very political person. I'm a very opinionated person. I have a lot of opinions about LGBTQ representations in the media, and it's not just a gay community issue. It's a black issue. It's an Asian issue. It's a minority issue in general.
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Gay Community
Opinionated
Minority
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I hope that one day, the world gets to a place where you don't need to politicize your sexuality any more than someone needs to politicize their race - that we can just act and we can exist in this Zeitgeist, telling stories about one another.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Sexuality
Zeitgeist
Hope World Day
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One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy who looked at my face and was like, 'Are you Felix?' I looked very different then. I was like, 'Yah... Oh, yah!' I was stunned and slightly frightened.
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Frightened
One Time
Stunned
Whipped
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Sometimes animal exercises can help you get in touch with parts of yourself that you don't access day to day. In my day-to-day physicality, I'm a little bit like a terrier. I've always been described as a dog. I'm kind of goofy and a little dopey looking sometimes.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Animal
Day To Day
Goofy
Physicality
Always Yourself Day
Exercises
Terrier
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Generally the things you get offered are never things you want to do. It's a continual fight for the good parts. As you climb the ladder and get to different benchmarks, enter new stratospheres, you're just competing against all the other people in that stratosphere.
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Different
Fighting
People
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I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people?
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Adopted
Great Job
Surrogate
Traditional Sense
Well-Adjusted
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As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Academic
Elitism
Middle School
Outcast
Puberty
Pit
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Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Beach
Fast Paced
Hiking
Toronto
Awesome
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I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic, it's always kind and compassionate. It can be difficult to hold onto artistic principles when the business is so glaringly about the product. It's sad.
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Principles
Sides
Thinking
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As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Viewers
Arc
Realistically
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People are very uncomfortable when you call actors artists because there are a lot of actors out there that aren't artists - there are a lot of actors that are hired for very specific reasons that are shallow and have to do with sexual currency and what the industry thinks sells. Real actors are artists, they're expressionists.
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Artist
Real
Thinking
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I was one of those kids who kept trying on different skins in high school. I was very afraid to be myself around all of these kids, to really reveal any part of myself that was true, so I would try on different skins, try on different masks, hoping I'd hit on one that was cool or quirky or interesting enough that suddenly I would be OK.
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Quirky
Skins
Hoping
Masks
Reveal
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As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch. They're going on the journey with you, as the actor and the character.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Journey
Character
Fun
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Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts of themselves - the character has to be likeable, has to be fuckable, has to be redemptive on all fronts. When you're playing a character that's just inherently destructive or messed up, you're given this beautiful permission to try things. There's a license to fail.
Jordan Gavaris / Actor
Beautiful
Character
Hero
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