Quotes by Skeet Ulrich

• The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
• I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
• I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
• I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
• I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
• My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.
• People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.
• The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
• The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.
• 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.
• There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
• I think you have to refill the well at some point.
• 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.
• In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.
• Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.
• I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.
• 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.
• As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
• 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.
• 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.
• Everybody else has been seen, been proven.
• Everyone's really lazy in L.A.
• My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.
• I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.
• I get to play a killer next.
• Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.
• I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
• Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
• I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
• I had gone to school to study marine biology.
• I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
• I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
• I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.
• I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.