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Dallas Roberts Quotes:

Dallas Roberts quotes

Ocupation: Actor

Life: b. May 10, 1970

Birthday: May 10

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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that Im in.

Topics: Trying, Quirks

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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

source: - "Q&A – Dallas Roberts (Miles Fiedler)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2010.

Topics: Coders, Twelve, Atari

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

Topics: Kids, Gun, Car, Speeding Cars, Speeding

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Thinking, Self, Parent, Folding

I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

source: - "Q&A – Dallas Roberts (Miles Fiedler)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2010.

Topics: Dad, Son, Thinking

It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Character, Trying, Information

I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Writing, Ideas, Play, Culmination, Third Grade

Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your benefit, in terms of figuring out who you are, you gain in the ability to just be whoever you want to be.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Book, Want, Gains

Once the audience has to use themselves to cross the distance to the character, that's what's really exciting. That's when it starts to be a discussion between the art form and the audience, and that's fun stuff.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Art, Fun, Distance, Fun Stuff

There's this notion that actors choose their career. After a certain level, I think that that's true. I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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