Adam Croasdell famous quotes

[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.
-- Adam Croasdell

#Guy #Interest #Fascinating

I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.
-- Adam Croasdell

#Home #Opportunity #Thinking

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.
-- Adam Croasdell

#People #Special #Passionate

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.
-- Adam Croasdell

#Writing #Character #Going For It

I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.
-- Adam Croasdell

#Thinking #People #Stories

A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.

When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.

I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.

The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.