Robert Knepper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'
-- Robert Knepper

#Hate #Love You #Careers
Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.
-- Robert Knepper

#Guy #Persons #Know How
I would love to have the power to be the just eternally perfect husband so my wife would always be happy; that would take me to heaven if I could figure that one out.
-- Robert Knepper

#Husband #Perfect #Wife
Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it.
-- Robert Knepper

#Crazy #Sometimes
I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.
-- Robert Knepper

#Character #Ideas #Acting
How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!
-- Robert Knepper

#People #Best Work #Ballgame
When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.
-- Robert Knepper

#Growing Up #Kids #Discipline
Prison Break really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.
-- Robert Knepper

#Prison #Break #Changed
I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful.
-- Robert Knepper

#Grateful #Laughing #So Grateful
My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.
-- Robert Knepper

#Life Is #Accepting
I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.
-- Robert Knepper

#Dad #Television #Grew Up
I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.
-- Robert Knepper

#Grateful #Thinking #Actors
I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.
-- Robert Knepper

#Running #Growing Up #Kids
The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.
-- Robert Knepper

#Jobs #Best Job #Actors
There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.
-- Robert Knepper

#Successful #Thinking #Play
For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."
-- Robert Knepper

#Dog #Beach #Successful
Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.
-- Robert Knepper

#Red #Hitchcock #Old Days
I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!
-- Robert Knepper

#Believe #Love Is #Theater
I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.
-- Robert Knepper

#Nuts #Television #Film
With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.
-- Robert Knepper

#Writing #Stuff #Comedy
What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.
-- Robert Knepper

#Sports #Play #Balls
I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.
-- Robert Knepper

#Girl #Independent #Simple
I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television'; it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.
-- Robert Knepper

#Father #Hate #Kids
I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.
-- Robert Knepper

#Stars #Roles #Guests
I've had so much fun working on 'Shameless.'
-- Robert Knepper

#Fun #Shameless

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