Skeet Ulrich

“Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.”

“People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.”

“I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.”

“There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.”

“As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.”

“Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.”

“I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.”

“I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.”

“What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.”

“I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.”

“Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.”

“I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.”

“I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.”

“I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.”

“My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.”

“I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.”

“There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.”

“The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.”

“Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.”

“I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.”