Aaron Stanford Quotes

#1. Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

Chalene Johnson

#2. Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Aaron Stanford

#3. People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

Aaron Stanford

#4. I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

Aaron Stanford

#5. It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

Aaron Stanford

#6. The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

Aaron Stanford

#7. An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

John Cage

#8. I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

Aaron Stanford

#9. Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

Aaron Stanford

#10. I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Aaron Stanford

#11. The ones who win usually don't need the prize.

Jake Colsen

#12. But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

Aaron Stanford

#13. The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

Robert Olen Butler

#14. Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Aaron Stanford

#15. I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

Aaron Swartz

#16. You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news? I'm the worst one.

Aaron Stanford

#17. You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

Aaron Stanford

#18. I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

Nellie McKay

#19. I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

Aaron Stanford

#20. Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Aaron Stanford

#21. I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

Aaron Stanford

#22. A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Benjamin Disraeli

#23. You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

Aaron Stanford

#24. My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

Aaron Stanford