Gale Harold Quotes

#1. I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

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#2. Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.

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#3. One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

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#4. I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

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#5. My interests are not really with television, per se.

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#6. After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

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#7. If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

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#8. Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

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#9. I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.

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#10. Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

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#11. I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something.

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#12. My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

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#13. I want to keep developing. I want to become relaxed in my own work and go deeper. Just growing and studying and trying new things and hopefully having professional access to work that's good and interesting. I don't want to be on the treadmill of artificiality.

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#14. If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fck off.

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#15. I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

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#16. You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

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#17. I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

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