Quotes by Peter Stormare - Page 1

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Car
Enough
House
Car Me Drive
Drive
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Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Brains
Terry
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I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Clock
Punch
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I never want to get tied to one project or be in one TV show forever.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Tied
Tv Show
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Bad Movies
Schwarzenegger
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I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Actors
Bored
Directors
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The beautiful thing about 'American Gods' is that it's very simple at its core.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Core
Beautiful Thing
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Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Guts
Instinct
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To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Acting
Important
Things In Life
Life Me Important
Human Being
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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I don't personally like slasher movies that make you scream in the movie theater.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Movie Theater
Scream
Slasher
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Everyone that've been here, working, living as Americans - just give them a green card.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Green Card
Card
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The best paycheck you can get as a producer and creator is when people are happy to be on the show.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Creator
Producer
Paycheck
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Steve Buscemi, in between takes, becomes like a clam. It's hard to get a word out of him. It's very funny.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Steve
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I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Boys
Littles
Want
Fantasize
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I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Tiny
Village
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With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Scripts
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I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Luxury
Life Me Important
Human Being
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Movie
Mean
Salary
Years
Agent
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Since I started, like, 200 years ago, I've always wanted to direct and write. But I've been so busy - and fortunate and lucky - as an actor.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Busy
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I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Opera
People
Voice
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How brittle life is, yet it's been going on for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe we should sit down and pay tribute to life instead of just destruction.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Destruction
Tribute
Pay Tribute
Thousands Of Years
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There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Couple
Forever
Heart
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I came on board 'Clown' because it was a very simple story, and it was a very nice script and a very refreshing take on a kind of The Brothers Grimm fable, you know?
Peter Stormare / Actor
Clown
Refreshing
Board
Fable
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I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it's funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and it's because, being European, I usually get cast as bad guys. It's just how it is.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Bad Guys
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If I ran for president, the first thing I'd do is legalize everyone who's been here paying taxes, working, paying taxes. Mothers and fathers of kids born in the U.S. should get a green card.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Green
Green Card
Ran
Card
Fathers
First Thing
Legalize
Mothers
Paying
The First Thing
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I call myself a grasshopper. I paint, I write poetry, and I'm in a band. When it comes to movies and TV, I like to work in everything and with everyone. I wanna do it all, beyond even the screen.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Paint
Wanna
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People who are registered to vote should vote. I vote all the time. If I'm not in the country, I do it over mail. Sometimes I don't know who the people are - I just pick whatever girl is Democratic.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Democratic
Mail
Vote
Time People Sometimes
Time Country People
Pick
Registered
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In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That's what I'm always looking for and trying to do.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Bad Guys
Time Always Bad
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When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Character
Dark
Fifty
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I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh. As a kid, I remember the clowns that were all in white reminded me more of death than circus clowns. It can be a scary thing.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Circus
Paint
Scary Thing
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I usually say I might have a talent or I'm lacking a talent, because everyday, I must tell you, I thank whatever is up there or out there that I'm alive and that I get to do what I'm doing, and I think that sends off a lot of good vibrations in different directions.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Different
Everyday
Thinking
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When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, 'Isn't art supposed to be difficult?' If we can all do art, then it's not really art. It's supposed to be difficult.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Anarchist
Asking Questions
Obstinate
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As an actor, you have to do things out of passion sometimes. I'm not in it for a lot of money. But I only need one car, and I'd rather work with people I really do respect and admire. And if you walk that path, you don't get written about too much in the tabloids, and I'm good with that.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Car
Passion
People
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Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Imagination
Sorry
Years
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If you do a character, always make the character with a big question mark. Even if the character is very enigmatic and all over the place, make him always with a question mark, because if you turn a question mark upside down, like they do in South America in Spanish, then it becomes a hook.
Peter Stormare / Actor
America
Character
Hook
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If I had the money, I would love to open up a movie theater that just played images and colors and beautiful music. For me, there's nothing like listening to a beautiful opera sometimes - on a record or seeing it live - just to be sleepy and let those beautiful voices take me somewhere I've never been before.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Beautiful
Color
Voice
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If what I think is God should come down today and says "I'm God, or the thing you call God, and you're never going to do any more movies. You're never going to do television. You're never going to do theater again in your life," I would just say "What are we doing? What is the next step?" That's how I try to approach it.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Next Steps
Thinking
Trying
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I've been very lucky and fortunate to meet people that are very inspirational in their spirits, too, and not just as filmmakers - in their personal life. I mean, Steven Spielberg is very inspirational just to sit down and talk for an hour, like Ingmar Bergman was. They know so much about life and, you know, movie-making, so it's just wonderful to be around those people.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Lucky
Mean
People
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My mentor, [Ingmar] Bergman, when we worked on stage, he said you can't convince a thousand people at the big stage where we were working. You can't convince everybody, but just pick one every night that you perform for and make sure that he or she will have an experience that alters their life in a more positive way. So, just one every night. That's worth all the struggle and screaming.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Night
People
Struggle
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I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Dream
Kids
Dark
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