Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you’ve got the material there, you can ride it. Justin Kirk Read Quote
Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd. Justin Kirk Read Quote
I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me. Justin Kirk Read Quote
When I’m watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don’t need it be something that is, ‘Well this makes more sense to me because I can see this happening to me, or this happened to me.’ Justin Kirk Read Quote
You always have these moments when projects are over when you wonder if you’ll ever work again. In the end, what it comes down to is that it’s a fine line between becoming too enamored of your own success and maintaining the confidence to do what you do and do it well. That’s the line every actor, if they’re lucky, has to walk. Justin Kirk Read Quote
I think my favorite movie is ‘Joe Versus the Volcano’ – or maybe ‘Multiple Maniacs’ by John Waters. Justin Kirk Read Quote
I love dogs and cats, but I don’t want to be the guy who says, ‘I’m going to Brussels for a while; can you take Poochie?’ Or even worse, I could be the guy who takes Poochie to Brussels with him – then I’m really in trouble. Justin Kirk Read Quote
After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I’m finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person. Justin Kirk Read Quote
The funny thing is that making a pilot is sort of an audition, at least for me. There’s something psychological there, where you’re sort of asking for the job while you’re acting. And then when it’s been picked up, it’s a completely different psychological dynamic. Justin Kirk Read Quote
It’s certainly anyone’s prerogative to say, ‘I liked something more when it was this’ or blah blah. But there’s a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I’ve dropped television shows as a viewer. Justin Kirk Read Quote
