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Jason Patric
American
Actor
About the author
Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Suffering
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Help
#Vocabulary
It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Now
#Being
#Movies
#Vanity
Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
#Day
#Training
When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Talk
#Research
#Actors
When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Actors
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#People
#Will
#Passion
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Worth
I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Movies
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Office
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Want
#Movies
I try to stay under the radar.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Movies
I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#American
#Horror
I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Character
#Movies
I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Thought
#Movies
I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Money
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Movies
I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Time
#Projects
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Celebrity
#Being
#Business
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#People
#Actor
#Press
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Successful
#Business
#Fame
If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.
Jason Patric,
American
Actor
#Today
#Business