John Carroll Lynch Quotes

#1. Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

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#2. You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

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#3. The fear that you come to a show called 'American Horror Story' with is yours. That being said, I'm glad people are afraid, and I hope that I'm contributing to their fear. I'm really not afraid of my own darkness anymore. I'm not afraid of what I'm capable of.

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#4. My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?

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#5. Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

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#6. 'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.

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#7. As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

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#8. I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.'

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#9. Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

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#10. I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

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#11. Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.

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#12. Psychological horror I've always appreciated, like 'Rosemary's Baby.' The slasher movies and the grotesque movies are the ones that I've really been off for a while.

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