There’s only a handful of people who are just purely, inherently funny, and I’m not one of them. I need content and a situation. I don’t just walk on the screen, and people go, ‘Ha ha ha!’ There are people like that, and they can do almost anything. It’s the Christopher Walken Rule. Gary Cole Read Quote
Even people who aren’t engaged on the actual battlefield – the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything. Gary Cole Read Quote
When you’re in a movie with Will Ferrell, well, it’s time to at least sometimes throw the script away. And that character in ‘Talladega Nights’ I found a lot easier to kind of riff with because I related to it more, those kind of Southern, almost rednecky guys. That’s a culture that I’m familiar with, that makes sense for me to spew. Gary Cole Read Quote
I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway. Gary Cole Read Quote
I don’t think anyone sets out to do something bad, it’s just that it’s very difficult. Gary Cole Read Quote
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I’ve done on stage. Gary Cole Read Quote
