Quotes by William Petersen - Page 1

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.
William Petersen / Actor
Chicago
First Love
Firsts
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There’s no greater search than that of lost love.
William Petersen / Actor
Greater
Lost
Lost Love
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I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.
William Petersen / Actor
Bugs
Germany
Stuff
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Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.
William Petersen / Actor
Ocean
Reader
Sail
Writing
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A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them.
William Petersen / Actor
Answers
Persons
Smart
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When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.
William Petersen / Actor
Network
Ratings
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I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.
William Petersen / Actor
Able
Panic
Panic Attacks
Rehearsal
Attacks
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I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
William Petersen / Actor
Actors
Bitter
Saws
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Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.
William Petersen / Actor
Character
Likes
People
Poke
Want
Life Work Character
Grissom
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One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
William Petersen / Actor
Fifty
Giving
Percent
Responsibility
Theater
Things I Love
Reasons
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I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.
William Petersen / Actor
Figures
People
Regret
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I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
William Petersen / Actor
Jobs
Awards
Decent
Good Work
Moving
Recognition
Work Good Business
Work Business Good
Grab
Onto
Paycheck
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Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.
William Petersen / Actor
Closest
Heart
Heathers
Except
Grissom
Heather
Lady
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Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.
William Petersen / Actor
Law
Odds
Rebel
Always Me Law
Breaks
Chose
Me Law Always
Identify
Rebels
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The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.
William Petersen / Actor
Chicago
Downtown
Wife
Wife Me Will
Bought
Me Wife Will
Condo
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Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
William Petersen / Actor
Corporate
Hollywood
Movie Star
Stars
Thinking
Gibson
Pursuing
Thinks
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Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
William Petersen / Actor
Dark
Dark Side
People
Trying
Desperately
Explore
How Much
Natures
Something Else
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If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.
William Petersen / Actor
Actors
Athlete
If I Could
Legs
Change Good Myself
Actor
Shot
Injuries
Mine
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I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.
William Petersen / Actor
Bad Guys
Cop
Guy
Pushing
Series
Wall
Years
Telling
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I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.
William Petersen / Actor
Character
Long
Thinking
Time Character Long
Long Period
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I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
William Petersen / Actor
Chicago
Growing Up
President
Ten
Years
Life Work Live
Life Work My Life
Mayor
Ten Years
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I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.
William Petersen / Actor
Missing
Right Way
Thinking
Way
Life Hope Me
Miss
Complete
Grissom
Reached
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
William Petersen / Actor
Careers
Chicago
First Love
Live Theater
Tv Shows
Love Always Me
Love Me Live
Love Me Always
Tv Show
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I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.
William Petersen / Actor
Horrible
Math
Opposites
Roles
Opposite
Complete
Life Cool Science
Complete Opposite
Graduate
Grissom
Pass
Save
Surprised
Test
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The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.
William Petersen / Actor
Beard
Drinking
Life Changing
Series
Shaving
Tired
Grissom
Mid-Life
Subsequently
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I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.
William Petersen / Actor
Dad
Doctors
Dry
Play
Doctor
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If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
William Petersen / Actor
Sports
Acting
Football
Football Player
Good Feeling
Impact
Player
Profound
Years Ago
Good Football People
Good Sports Football
Shot
Career
Feeling
Profound Impact
Stayed
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We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!
William Petersen / Actor
Magnitude
Surprise
Episode
More People
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Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
William Petersen / Actor
Farewell
Goodbye
Impact
Night
Scared
Theatre
Celebrity
Episode
Gratifying
Million People
More People
Working Actor
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I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.
William Petersen / Actor
Baseball
Fun
Games
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Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
William Petersen / Actor
Animal
Deaf
Father
Mother
Raised
Silent
Mother Father Know
Animals
Father Know Mother
Grissom
Potentially
Supervisor
Yard
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