Brad Dourif famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.
-- Brad Dourif

#Creativity #Creative #Alive
I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.
-- Brad Dourif

#Daughter #Mother #Years
Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.
-- Brad Dourif

#Doors #Play #Guy
I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.
-- Brad Dourif

#Mean #Circles #People
You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.
-- Brad Dourif

#Fun #Having Fun #Trying
I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.
-- Brad Dourif

#Rehearsal #Film #Stage
I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.
-- Brad Dourif

#Lucky #Influence
If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.
-- Brad Dourif

#Artist #Two #Important
I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.
-- Brad Dourif

#Decision #Way #Perfectionist
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
-- Brad Dourif

#Ocean #Floating
I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.
-- Brad Dourif

#Moving #Character #Depth
What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked on alot. And there is something about Grima, he has been picked on when he was a kid, he (Grima) is so distrustful, he is so easily corrupted, He is so ugly, and he wants somebody, he wants to love somebody, and he can't, because nobody will have him.
-- Brad Dourif

#School #Kids #Ugly
Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.
-- Brad Dourif

#Running #Nice #Real

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