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Ricky Schroder

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 13, 1970

I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.

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Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

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You always hear about people going through miscarriages and you never understand what one is like unless you go through it.

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I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.

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I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

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I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

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I don't like doing movies that are meaningless or unrealistic. I like things with a lot of reality to them. I'm a pretty serious kind of person myself. Things affect me.

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I'm absolutely an optimist. It's the only way to get through life.

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I love horror. I love 'The Shining,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Halloween,' all those kinds of things. I love zombies, especially '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later,' where the zombies are going faster than the George Romero ones. I love being scared; there's something that's awesome about your heart rate going up like that.

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I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of 'Star Wars' - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.

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'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

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I was never really comfortable doing comedy.

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I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

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'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.

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I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs.

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I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

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I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.

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I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.

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Working on 'NYPD Blue' and '24', those two series, I did full runs on those. It's great work, but everything has to align. The producers have to want you; the network has to want you; there has to be great writing; and it's not as easy as it may appear to the outsiders to make all those things align.

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