Tim Daly Quotes

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Tim Daly

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 1, 1956

What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.

Tim Daly

I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.

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I don't think I gave 'Wings' its due. I was young. I wanted to light the world on fire.

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Everybody wants to have their 'Breaking Bad.' It went to Bryan Cranston. It couldn't have happened to a better guy or a better actor.

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The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

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I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

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We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

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I can't help teasing people. That's the way that I am, and I hope that nobody takes it too personally.

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I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

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I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.

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I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

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I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

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I never have thought of myself as a brand. I've thought of myself as an artist.

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My public Facebook page is what it is. My Twitter account is sort of what it is, but if I'm totally honest with you, that is not my personal, private self. I have another Facebook page that is devoted to my dear friends and family, and they can keep in touch with me that way.

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Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.

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There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

Tim Daly

I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.

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