A biography for John Slatteryhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.”
“The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.”
“My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.”
“I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger.”
“When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.”
“As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.”
“And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that.”
“When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.”
“I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, 'Where is the soul in advertising?'”
“But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.”