Parrack Quotes

#1. My friend Jim Parrack is in 'Child of God,' and we grew up together. Back then, we would watch old movies and go reenact them at a Blockbuster or a supermarket. We'd end up getting in trouble because you can't reenact movies. People think you're crazy.

Scott Haze

#2. I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

Jim Parrack

#3. I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.

Jim Parrack

#4. The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you're nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife.

Jim Parrack

#5. My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here ... God bless you all.

Walter Scott

#6. My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Jim Parrack

#7. When daddies want to be left in peace, they don't pay too much attention to what you do

Gunilla Bergstrom

#8. I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

H.P. Lovecraft

#9. If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

Jim Parrack

#10. I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.

Jim Parrack

#11. Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

Jim Parrack

#12. Ichirou: And I went through all the trouble preparing to explode with laughter...That wasn't funny at all!

Kou Matsuzuki

#13. These ideas could make men shout for rebellion even when it meant they would hang for it.

Alwyn Hamilton

#14. When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

Jim Parrack

#15. Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.

Joel Fuhrman

#16. 'True Blood' fans are as enthusiastic as any fans I've ever encountered.

Jim Parrack

#17. I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.

Jim Parrack

#18. A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

Jim Parrack

#19. Second only to a viable approach to acting, the most important thing an actor can find is a creative family. To have a solid core group of people that you take that journey with together is invaluable.

Jim Parrack

#20. My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other's eyes and talk for three hours without noticing that any time has passed. She is the kind of gal I spent a lifetime daydreaming about. She is an actor and a creative companion.

Jim Parrack

#21. I can't point to anything that has been more responsible for my career than my training.

Jim Parrack

#22. I don't like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it's a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.

Jim Parrack

#23. If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

Jim Parrack

#24. My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife up on that stage than you can imagine.

Jim Parrack