Chris Carmack Quotes

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Chris Carmack

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 22, 1980

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

Chris Carmack

I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'

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I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.

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I lived in a little shack in Santa Monica, and I was working on 'The O.C.' and when it started airing, I took my laundry down to the laundromat like I always had, and so many people along the two blocks I walked and in the laundromat stopped me and asked me for photographs.

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I'm somebody who values anonymity - not just in terms of not wanting people to recognize me or wanting my privacy, but I value anonymity in conversation.

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I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.

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The music is something I've always done and always loved but always really kept for myself. Something I do for me.

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I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

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CNT was a good fit for 'Nashville,' and 'Nashville' was a great fit for CNT, and so timing was right. You know, they're investing more in scripted television - the show brought a lot of more eyeballs to CNT, eyeballs that are interested in country music - so, I mean, it couldn't have been a better fit.

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Let's be honest - it's hard for me to get more sexy, but I'm giving it a go.

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Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

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In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been performing country music since they were kids. It's very much a part of who they are; very much that jazz and blues are a part of who I am, because I grew up listening to and playing that kind of music.

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I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.

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When I came to Nashville, I was sort of experimenting with a new identity, experimenting with the country world and country writers. I realized I needed to take a step back from that, to be true to some of the music I've been doing over the years and to put that into the world before I move forward and redefine myself again.

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