Michael Rooker Quotes

#1. I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

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#2. Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I'd better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

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#3. If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.

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#4. Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

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#5. Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

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#6. I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

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#7. 'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.

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#8. You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

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#9. Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.

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#10. When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

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#11. It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

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#12. I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

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#13. I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

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#14. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

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#15. Actors basically do their thing on the set, and then you put all the pieces together, switch them around, and maybe put them a different way that looks better. We just give him everything he needs, and then he goes in and does his thing.

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#16. That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship between him and Quill, and how they ended up living together, for the last 18 or 19 years, without killing one another. He's a strong young man, and it's because of Yondu.

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