Patrick Wilson Quotes

I can`t make any comment. It`s all conjecture at the moment.

All the available pavement we have is being used for parking of the aircraft,

(on his 2003 resolution) "To be in a movie or a play which doesn`t require me to take off my clothes. Unless, of course, I don`t get another job... In which case I`ll be half-naked and whole-heartedly depressed for the rest of my career."

Robert DeNiro has been trying to get it done for a few years, and hopefully the movie happens and I`ll be in it. I`ve got my plate full right now, so we`ll see what happens.

It was a terribly emotional case for both sides in this matter. The jury had some tough decisions to make....But I hope they (Peterson family) do get closure and I hope this does help.

You even lied to your own attorney.

The two times I performed at the White House, for the Kennedy Center Honors, I was made fun of. The first time, in 2001, I wore a nice Gucci suit and tie, which cost more than my rent. And when I met President Bush, he said, `Thanks for dressing up.` Everybody else was in a traditional tux. It was really funny. I totally got mocked by the President. Then the next year, I had on a black suit with a tuxedo shirt and a great light-blue straight tie. It was just a little different. But Colin Powell said, `Hey, next time wear a bow tie.`

It`s an amazingly liberating thing to be able ... to take your clothes off and not worry about it, because it`s not about your body, it`s not anything like that, ... (I)t`s nice to go out there and have people screaming regardless of whether you look like a Chippendale (male dancer) or not.

We are considering harboring with a fugitive charges against these individuals.

Six years ago, when I moved (to New York), I said the only things I wanted to do was originate the lead in a show, and if it was a musical, then do the recording, and get nominated for a Tony. So now that I`ve done all that, I don`t know what I`m going to do. Maybe I should dream higher.

It is your whole life in there. And you can pass because of the smallest thing, or not pass because of the smallest thing.

I don`t want it to linger,

We are a family, the tribe, we need to come together and be united and have a vision for this tribe.

I would never `abandon` Broadway. I do want to expand my horizons and do more film work, but I`m interested in good roles, wherever they may be. I will always come back, even if I went to LA for a job. I refuse to acknowledge the gap between theater and film. I want to do both. On both coasts. So I will...unless I never get a job again, in which case I`ll go back to my first career choice: chimney sweep.

(on his character Col. William Travis in The Alamo (2004)) "He`s painted as this big, swashbuckling kind of hero, but Travis didn`t consider himself a hero. For Travis, he always thought a leader was someone who puts on fancy clothes. He finally figures out who he is in his last days."