Vincent Kartheiser Quotes

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool.

I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery.

It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

It's always nice to know people are watching and having their own ideas about things and it's nice when your audience starts trying to guess what's going to happen, it means they're really interested.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another.

I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change.

So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.

I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.

Storytelling is the important thing.

Education is the number one priority.

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.

It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead.

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.