Clancy Brown quotes

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it. (Clancy Brown)

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

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When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

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Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

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There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

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It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

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I am constantly amazed on every level at how lucky I am.

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I would have had fun doing just about anything.

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First time directors - they may not make good movies all the time but they are always the best directors to work for because they're always so excited, always so committed to what they're trying to do.

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Well part of the reason I have that many credits is I don't get in my director's face too much. I just do what I'm told. But I've also been burned by first time directors. Anthony and I talked about it and, you know, he thought he was picking me and I thought I was picking him and we hit it off. He's very visual which is exactly what you want for this. (Clancy Brown)

I mean, there is a certain amount of exposition you have to have in films and how that exposition is handled tells you whether it's a good script or not, whether it's a good filmmaker or not. You know, the more exposition that can be handled without a character speaking it, the more thematic metaphors that you can do visually, to me that's a better situation.

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I enjoyed it from a very early age. When I had to make my own living after college, I decided to give doing what I enjoyed most a shot as a profession. It worked out and I've never had to "work” for a living since. If I hadn't gotten so lucky, there were plenty of options open to me being, after all, a young educated white male in America.

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