Joe Penny

“I've been building a future for myself outside of acting.”

“I never had any formal voice training, but it's something I always wanted to do. 'So I negotiated a deal with a recording studio after I gathered enough material for a record. I put a group together and just went ahead and did it. What the hell.”

“I'm not changing because I'm part of a hit. People around me have changed in their attitude toward me, but I haven't changed. And I won't.”

“I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.”

“You get used to that work mode, get used to always doing something.”

“The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.”

“Working in TV films has a lot of advantages over the daily grind of doing an hour series.”

“I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.”

“In a series, you have the luxury of time to establish the character and build a rhythm. In a TV movie, you've got to come up with the rhythm now. Right now.”

“I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.”

“I definitely want to go the route of feature films.”

“Most of the time I play heroes, guys who don't have an edge.”

“We all are so serious when we are younger.”

“I think you could turn on any channel and see a sexy guy, depending on your barometer of what sexy is.”

“I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.”

“If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.”

“I guess being a hunk is a lot better than being a chunk.”

“With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.”

“In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.”

“I'm one of those workaholics, the kind of guy who may drop with a cardiac arrest around 55.”