Patrick Wilson

“In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.”

“The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.”

“I just don't watch a lot of TV.”

“I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.”

“Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.”

“Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.”

“I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.”

“I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.”

“If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.”

“The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.”

“I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.”

“When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.”

“I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.”

“There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.”

“I don't like being lied to.”

“Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.”

“I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.”

“I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.”

“If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.”

“It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.”