Steve Zahn famous quotes

04-17-2025

I'm convinced women actually think they can read minds. Like when a woman goes, "I can tell you don't want to hang out with me today." And you're like, "What are you talking about? I actually do!"
-- Steve Zahn

#Thinking #Talking #Mind
What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.
-- Steve Zahn

#Tone #Consistent
You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.
-- Steve Zahn

#Actors #Matter #Hot
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.
-- Steve Zahn

#New York #Play #Guy
I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.
-- Steve Zahn

#Dad #Kids #Good Dad
I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.
-- Steve Zahn

#Character #Superhero #Vulnerable
I'm not a leading guy.
-- Steve Zahn

#Guy
I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.
-- Steve Zahn

#People #Saving #Come Up
Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.
-- Steve Zahn

#Kids #Years #Wish
Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.
-- Steve Zahn

#Laughing #People #Taglines
PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.
-- Steve Zahn

#Play #Meditation #Form
You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.
-- Steve Zahn

#Fighting #Games #People
I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.
-- Steve Zahn

#Fun #Challenges #Acting
I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.
-- Steve Zahn

#War #Military #Kentucky
I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.
-- Steve Zahn

#Flower #Cutting #Garden
Film is a strange thing.
-- Steve Zahn

#Strange #Film
I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.
-- Steve Zahn

#Care #Oscars #Campaigns
I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.
-- Steve Zahn

#Yesterday #Vegetables #Names
I lived in Minnesota in a small town.
-- Steve Zahn

#Towns #Minnesota #Small Town
I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.
-- Steve Zahn

#Character #Looks #Actors
I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.
-- Steve Zahn

#Men #Dvds #Scripts
I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.
-- Steve Zahn

#Thinking #Glasses #Brilliant
You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.
-- Steve Zahn

#Stars #Kids #Play

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