Oliver Platt quotes

I think of myself as an actor.
-- Oliver Platt

#Thinking #Actors

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
-- Oliver Platt

#Song #Lost Love #Men

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
-- Oliver Platt

#Years #Saws #Roles

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
-- Oliver Platt

#Years #People #Dying

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
-- Oliver Platt

#New York #Kids #Actors

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
-- Oliver Platt

#Bottles #Fluidity #Lightning

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
-- Oliver Platt

#Mean #Way #Would Be

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.