A biography for Stephen Dorffhasn’t been written yet.
“Living at the beach, it's hard to get out of the sun.”
“I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.”
“I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.”
“In my early 20s, I was buying Kristofferson records. I loved his acting; then I found out all the songs he wrote. I loved the Highwaymen. I collected all that stuff.”
“Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.”
“I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.”
“I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.”
“I watch a lot of movies.”
“I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.”
“I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.”
“I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people talk.”
“I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a concept of 'assets,' but as I got a little older, I bought art.”
“Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.”
“I used to play around and sing Randy Travis for my dad. I'd always be able to just mimic things.”
“I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.”
“It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.”
“I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I said, 'I'm just from the Valley!' Just from the San Fernando Valley!”
“In a movie script, you know what the moments are that you really have to hit it out of the park.”
“Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.”
“I don't think Jack Nicholson has ever called me Stephen. He's like, 'Hey, Dorff. How are ya?'”