Brad Leland quotes

I love the rehearsal, as long as it's not over-rehearsed. I love it when the actors can rehearse until we feel really comfortable, and then the crew come in and shoot it. I'm not especially a big fan of rehearsing with the crew and the crew rehearsing and, "Let's rehearse this tracking dolly shot 25 times until it's just right." Television has to be shot a certain way to have a certain look. And sometimes the tried-and-true method is the best.
-- Brad Leland

#Long #Sometimes

For some reason as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, I always thought I was going to go to UCLA. I think it was because they had such great sports teams, and it was in California, where the actors were. But even though I was talking about being an actor when I was young, I was first going to be a football player. My dream was "I'm going to go to UCLA and be a football player."
-- Brad Leland

#Sports #Dream #Football

There's been a lot of stage combat over the years, and I've loved it. Started in college with William Shakespeare. I've always liked the active things.
-- Brad Leland

#College

Having been a theater person first, you have the whole character, and you see the arc of the character in a play. And then when you do a movie, you have the whole character - or, if it's a small role, there's not much arc, but you see what the whole part is.
-- Brad Leland

#Character

I love motion-capture, because you're just free. It's like when you're a little kid, and you say, "Okay, we're the army men. We're going over the mountain." Or, in this case, "We're walking through the swamp" or "Walking through the casino." And it's just a blank room.
-- Brad Leland

#Kids #Army #Men

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.