David Morse Quotes

I`ve done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn`t use them because it didn`t match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

As an actor, what we hope for is someone who is in the moment and completely alive, because that just makes you all the more alive.

I`m a very private person.

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that`s what I wanted to do.

I don`t care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you`ve got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn`t seem important. Maybe it`s because you`ve been without money for so long as an actor.

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people`s minds.

I`ve always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I`ve always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

I`ve tried to let the work I do speak.

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn`t necessarily want what he`s written, although we`ll do what he`s written. He likes the danger of acting.

It`s great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn`t want to be just stuck in one or the other.

I try to do things I haven`t been able to before.

Home wasn`t a pleasant place to live, growing up.

I got nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. People who make those kinds of films need anything they can get to get attention, money.

I`m acting for the pleasure of it.

Everything is interesting to me.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

Film is a very intimate medium.

I`m not sure I always feel like I`m in the seat. Sometimes I`m only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don`t know anybody who doesn`t feel that way.

I did a series for six years and I may wind up doing one again someday. But at that time, it was hard to be kind of in the same mold year after year.

There`s a different kind of satisfaction in helping a director achieve, you know, something like The Green Mile, which I thought was pretty terrific.

I`ve had roles as a computer and as a criminally insane man. These kinds of roles set you free because they`re not close to you.

You get to the middle of a take that`s going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you`ve got to get things going all over again.

I don`t like talking about myself. I`m not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

I`m very involved in the family`s daily life. I drive the kids to school. I do father-son overnights. I do all the cooking when I`m home.

I don`t even know what TV star means. I know there`s a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

There was an actual script, but when you would get in the room and start shooting, there was no rehearsal in the room or wherever you were.

I`ve grown up doing repertory theatre where I`ve gotten to do all kinds of roles, and then there I was cast on St. Elsewhere for six years.

Philadelphia is my home. I felt homeless for quite a while. In LA, so much revolves around show business, I never felt it was a very balanced life.