Goran Visnjic Quotes

"I`m working with a dialect coach, but it`s not helping. I want everyone to understand what I am talking about, like `peritoneal lavage`, you know, these medical expressions... I don`t want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller."

"Every time I perform, I work really hard to give part of myself to the audience. Then I do an interview and I read some story that just isn`t true, or someone draws a crazy conclusion about my life, and it`s such a betrayal. It hasn`t happened here, but in Croatia, I`ve had to stop reading about myself. I don`t think actors mean to be secretive - they just don`t want strangers looking through their kitchen window." - on why he doesn`t give many interviews.

"I don`t understand the word `hunk.`" - "Calgary Sun, " Jan. 30, 2000

"The first time I came here it was 10 days, then 15 days, then three months. Now this time I have to stay to April. I`m slowly getting stuck here and I miss Europe."

"I would really like to do theatre in my native language because that would be like so relaxed after ER ... English ... those medical words!"

"ER is a pretty big deal in Croatia. When my agent called and told me about this show, I said, `Are we talking about the same ER?` And I thought about it for half a second and then said, `Yes, of course!` I was watching them in Croatia when I was still at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and now I`m working with them."

"Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it`s getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence."

"This cute woman walked into my favourite bar in Gavella, Croatia, about 5 years ago. When I saw her I said "Uh-oh, that`s it". But I was shy, so I didn`t ask her out until a couple of days later, when I finally found someone who knew her phone number."

"I was happy to do it when I saw the chance of helping out the local theatre scene ... I am delighted to be able to help the theatres where I grew up and learned my profession. I have never forgotten my past."

"When somebody is attacking your hometown, and you`re just sitting in the basement, you feel really useless. I felt I had to do it to defend my country. That`s normal." - on why he extended his military service.

Several years ago I saw a video of a seal hunt in Canada and was shocked. I just couldn`t believe that sort of thing was still happening in the 21st century. But it was. The way seals are killed is so inhumane. They`re clubbed then pulled across the ice with big hooks. I mean, I have a pretty strong stomach from being on ER all these years, but it still disgusts me. Once you see a video like that it`s really hard to sit on the sidelines and say "Who cares."