Dean Norris Quotes

• If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

  Dean Norris

  Couple, Force, Minutes

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I don't have a lot of downtime.

  Dean Norris

  Downtime

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• I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

  Dean Norris

  Play, Lapd, Ems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

  Dean Norris

  Hero, Looks, Anti Hero

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

  Dean Norris

  Coffee, Looks, Guarantees

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• I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

  Dean Norris

  Jobs, Couple, Acting

  Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I talked to people that I'd done theater with, older actors and stuff. There's a lot of people who go into the business, and they must think they're good, or they wouldn't be in it. Why do you think that you're good enough to go into the business and make money at it? So I really wanted to ask myself that question a lot. Because it was an important kind of thing that I was going to do. I really wanted to do it, I loved it, and I thought that I was good enough that I could make money at it. And that's really what it came down to.

  Dean Norris

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.

  Dean Norris

  New York, Cities, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Dad, College, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I have a day off I will play golf.

  Dean Norris

  Golf, Play, Days Off

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

  Dean Norris

  Jobs, Worry, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't get a lot of "Hey, Harvard!" stuff. I think a lot of people who don't know me would be surprised to think that I went there. But no, I don't. You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

  Dean Norris

  School, College, Boxing

  "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. May 2010.

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• Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

  Dean Norris

  Fun, Winning, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Men, Personality, Gone

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Well, I was a drama kid.

  Dean Norris

  Drama, Kids, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think actors who take things too far are funny.

  Dean Norris

  Thinking, Actors

  "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2009.

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• For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

  Dean Norris

  Dream, Character, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

  Dean Norris

  Play, People, Would Be

  "Q&A: Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.

  Dean Norris

  Teacher, Kids, Gun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

  Dean Norris

  Military, Nice, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.

  Dean Norris

  Art, Dad, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

  Dean Norris

  Dad, Guy, Eras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.

  Dean Norris

  Guy, Way, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.

  Dean Norris

  Careers, Tvs, Knows

  Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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