Skeet Ulrich Quotes

"I ate onions before my kissing scene with Jewel Kilcher" - said in the December 1999 issue of Cosmopolitan when asked about starring with Ride with the Devil (1999/I) co-star Jewel Kilcher.

"I`m disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It`s become so much about personality."

I had built stuff my entire life, so I was designing and building and taking drafting. I would watch plays and got real interested in performing.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

I think you have to refill the well at some point.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

I`m not the most talkative guy in the world.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

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.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn`t care about education. I don`t know what I cared about.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

There`s been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

I didn`t even go to my prom. I didn`t have one date in high school.

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.

Everyone`s really lazy in L.A.

I don`t use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

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.

Having people in the business say, You do good work, is part of it, and so is knowing that it`s true in my head, that I do good work.

My problem with interviews, one day I`ll think one thing, and the next day I`ll think the exact opposite.

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.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it`s really the American holocaust. It`s something we need to look at.

In this business, you`re either Brad Pitt right away, or you`re already going down the ladder.

I guess I`m a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

I`m an actor, coming from New York theater.

I love feedback, I like to know when I hit something. Usually you know yourself, but you like to see that smile on the director`s face.

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.

It`s become so much about personality. A lot of Hollywood, they don`t work on acting, necessarily. They don`t see you`re gonna fall, make mistakes.

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 think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that`s impossible.

People said, That`s great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

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 get to play a killer next.

The Native American side was tragic. It`s just unbelievable what has happened to them.

Ultimately, it`s a pretty confusing moment.

My mom`s been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn`t really see my dad that much.