Gary Sinise Quotes

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Gary Sinise

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 17, 1955

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Gary Sinise

The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.

Gary Sinise

The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

Gary Sinise

Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

Gary Sinise

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

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I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Gary Sinise

My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

Gary Sinise

You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

Gary Sinise

I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

Gary Sinise

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

Gary Sinise

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

Gary Sinise

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Gary Sinise

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

Gary Sinise

My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.

Gary Sinise

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

Gary Sinise

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

Gary Sinise

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

Gary Sinise

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

Gary Sinise

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

Gary Sinise

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

Gary Sinise