Aaron Stanford

“Almost all of my favorite shows are limited series. It just seems to be the better way to go.”

“It's fun playing villains. It's people who are not held by any moral constraints - or any constraints, for that matter. It's a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life.”

“I'm sure some of the characters in 'X-Men' had a lot of physically demanding stuff to do, but my character's pretty much stand-and-deliver, stand there and throw fire at people. There's no acrobatics or anything.”

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

“I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.”

“Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.”

“I worshiped Judd Nelson in 'The Breakfast Club' growing up. I must've seen that movie 100 times.”

“Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.”

“It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.”

“Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress.”

“Obviously, you're always happy when you can tell a story completely from beginning to end and tell it in a satisfying way, where you're able to make yourself happy and make the audience happy.”

“The show is '12 Monkeys,' and I'm playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film '12 Monkeys.' It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.”

“I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.”

“I like 'The Lord of The Rings' and ninja swords.”

“Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.”

“Bruce Dern was fascinating. He's an amazing character. If you put him in a room at a table, you will sit there for the next five days and listen to everything he has to say and be fascinated by it. He's great.”

“I read a lot of war literature.”

“I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.”

“You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.”

“It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.”