John Corbett

“You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.”

“I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.”

“I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.”

“I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.”

“I'll be a little bummed out if I make it to my 70s and didn't have a kid. I have two dogs and I know how much I love them. I would like to love and raise a kid.”

“In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.”

“Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.”

“I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.”

“When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.”

“I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.”

“I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.”

“I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.”

“I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.”