Alan Dale famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.
-- Alan Dale

#Tv Shows #Giving #Gigs
The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.
-- Alan Dale

#Character #Writing #Years
I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.
-- Alan Dale

#Men #Years #Play
I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.
-- Alan Dale

#Kings #Fun #Thinking
My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.
-- Alan Dale

#Tv Shows #Wife #Tvs
When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.
-- Alan Dale

#Book #Heart #Television

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.
I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.
There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.
You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.
He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

Alan Dale famous quotes

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