I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn’t trying to get the ladies. Dallas Roberts Read Quote
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. Dallas Roberts Read Quote
I enjoy playing someone who doesn’t show up and say, ‘This is what I am, and this is what I’m about,’ but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, ‘Really? Is that what’s going on?’ Dallas Roberts Read Quote
To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it’s fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next. Dallas Roberts Read Quote
If you’re into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into ‘The Good Wife.’ If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out ‘The Walking Dead.’ Or DVR them both and go talk to your family. Dallas Roberts Read Quote
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don’t do what she would do in the situation. I’m always like, ‘Well, she has to do that because that’s what the story is.’ Dallas Roberts Read Quote
Yes, it’s annoying that Hamlet doesn’t kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn’t be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do. Dallas Roberts Read Quote
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. Dallas Roberts Read Quote
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it’s one of those tick boxes in a career. Dallas Roberts Read Quote
