I am full of optimism. The world hasn’t beaten it out of me yet. And I’m going to work very hard to make sure that they don’t. Jordan Gavaris Read Quote
Television is blue-collar work. You clock in in the morning; you work 12, 13 hours – sometimes 18 hours if you’re doing ‘Orphan Black.’ Jordan Gavaris Read Quote
As an actor, you don’t want to know the beginning and end to your character’s arc. It makes it more fun. You’re not playing the end. You’re playing it realistically. You don’t know where this character is going to go and what’s going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch. Jordan Gavaris Read Quote
I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I’d like to try my hand at directing. Jordan Gavaris Read Quote
I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek. Jordan Gavaris Read Quote
I actually love woodworking. I’m just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I’m a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking. Jordan Gavaris Read Quote
Sometimes animal exercises can help you get in touch with parts of yourself that you don’t access day to day. In my day-to-day physicality, I’m a little bit like a terrier. I’ve always been described as a dog. I’m kind of goofy and a little dopey looking sometimes. Jordan Gavaris Read Quote
I hope that one day, the world gets to a place where you don’t need to politicize your sexuality any more than someone needs to politicize their race – that we can just act and we can exist in this Zeitgeist, telling stories about one another. Jordan Gavaris Read Quote
There’s a thrill in flying by the seat of your pants – trousers, actually: ‘pants’ in English means underwear – because most shows don’t operate that way. Network shows are repetitive. Jordan Gavaris Read Quote