Latest Milo Ventimiglia Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't feel the pressure to deliver an unrealistically great man to the screen; I just want to be honest to who my character is on the page. If I can reflect that and put some heart into him and make him real, then I think I've done my job, and I think that people will like who he is.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Real, Heart, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think with actors, we tend to get rid of characters - and not get rid of them as in discard them or throw them away, but it's just that you take that jacket off because you're going to be putting a different jacket on.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Dream, Thinking, Storytelling

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think there's an initial shedding of the skin of a character when you've played them for so long, almost like a snake losing its skin. But when a job is done, I kind of walk away from it because I know that I need to prep for whatever else I'm going onto - I need to get back to being myself, which... Who knows exactly who that is, with all the talking voices in my head. You know, back to being a bit of a blank slate again. It becomes a necessity as an actor - at least for the way that I act.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• An audience gets to hang onto the characters for the rest of their lives if they want. I think it's great that the fans do that. It's just not too practical for a man like myself because I have to move on.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Moving, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most. I did local theater and plays in school. I think there was a sense of entertaining - being on the stage, making people laugh, making people cry - that I was drawn to. It was also one of those things like, "I can do this for a very long time."

  Milo Ventimiglia

  School, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Grandfather

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Soccer, Sports, Strong

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've got two older sisters, which I think was the best thing, but also the worst thing. They dressed me up like a girl, but at the same time I think they taught me a lot of what they experienced and what they lived through, and passed that on to me as a young man and influenced how I approached not only women, but people. I got very lucky with the family I was born into. From my older sisters to my mother and father, they're just good, kind-hearted people.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Girl, Mother, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Emotional, Want, Kind

  Source: www.elle.com

• [Sylvester Stallone] and I still touch base. I found out he was a fan of Heroes. That's kind of an amazing thing, when you look up to someone for so many years and they're actually following what you're doing. That's really a nice thing to know.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Nice, Hero, Years

  Source: movieweb.com

• I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an actor, not many people get to see him turn that character on, they don't understand that he's playing a role.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Artist

  Source: movieweb.com

• There's kind of like that fright and excitement all at the same time when you first see someone of his stature. Where its literally, "Oh my God, I can't believe I'm in the room with Sylvester Stallone." He disarms you. He lets you know when he talks to you, he speaks clearly, he'll make you laugh and he's very kind and warm hearted.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Believe, Laughing, Rooms

  Source: movieweb.com

• I pretty much grew up in the Clubber Lang/Ivan Drago era. That was more my time. I've always been a fan of the films, even the fifth, that I know some people didn't care for, I've always enjoyed them.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  People, Eras, Fans

  Source: movieweb.com

• In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Dad, Father, Nice

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

• I tell people, "It's the hardest thing to explain, but it's the easiest thing to understand." And all anybody really needs to know is, the struggles of life, the joy of life, the excitement and the heartbreak of life is something we can all connect to. And I like to hope that the inclusivity of the show [This Is Us] is something that audiences will relate to.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Struggle, Heart, People

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

• I hope everyone can give the audience that real, true experience. But Mandy [Moore] and I, we definitely jump decades, and I think trying to find a base look, so that I can go back to the Eighties, I can jump to the Nineties, it was like, "All right, Milo, you're living in a moustache for a little while." Which I'm perfectly fine with.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

• Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Children, Character, Loss

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

• The older I get, the easier it is to just be present in the moment, and understand what a man is going through.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Men, Moments, Easier

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

• You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be heavier. I think just the understanding that life goes in a million different directions, and hopefully, if you find excitement by what these characters are experiencing and what they're living through, and you're impacted by them as human beings, then that's the sustainability of the show [This is Us].

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

• [With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so much as I'm ruled by characters. If it's a great character, I'm invested. It doesn't matter what the genre, what the storyline, anything.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

• How can you sustain life? [Dan] Fogelman is magic, and I think the other scripts of his that I've read for this show specifically are as beautiful as the pilot script [of This Is Us]. And he said it in a meeting [regarding the stillbirth of a child], "You can't kill a baby every week." But I think the idea that you can have these impactful moments that are as heightened as the loss of a child - it's life.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Beautiful, Baby, Children

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

• I think there couldn't be a more perfect time with the state of the world than to come together and share an experience - especially an entertainment experience like This Is Us - to say, "You're different, and I'm different, but we all agree that life should be lived. You should be happy, and we're all deserving of joy."

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Thinking, Perfect, Joy

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Certain things work for me, certain things don't. [Going out for drinks is] about connecting, hanging out, and having a reason to spend time together. But you don't really need any kind of reason, other than you want to spend time with somebody.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Together, Needs, Going Out

  Source: www.glamour.com