Donal Logue Quotes - Page 2

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.

I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

I didn't originally want to be an actor. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.

It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in.

There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.

I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.