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Skeet Ulrich
American
Actor
About the author
I get to play a killer next.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Play
My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Day
Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Nothing
#Being
The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Play
I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Flying
I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Day
#Experience
I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Actor
#Theater
I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#World
My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Mom
#Dad
People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#People
#Feeling
#Career
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#American
The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#American
There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Time
#Act
There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Emotion
#Individualism
I think you have to refill the well at some point.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Life
#Eyes
#Actor
#Deals
In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Right
#Business
Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Pretty
I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Want
#People
#Questioning
#Skin
I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#People
#Quality
#Actor
As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#People
#Home
#Play
#Country
#Guitar
As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Want
#Actor
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Day
#Living
Everybody else has been seen, been proven.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
Everyone's really lazy in L.A.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Time
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Ambiguity
I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Thought
#Quick
I had gone to school to study marine biology.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Study
#School
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Education
#Care
I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Heart
#Feeling
#Rejection
#Dad
I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#Right
#Now
#People
I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.
Skeet Ulrich,
American
Actor
#School