Rooker Quotes

#1. 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.

Michael Rooker

#2. 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.

Michael Rooker

#3. 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.

Michael Rooker

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

Michael Rooker

#5. 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.

Michael Rooker

#6. When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

Viggo Mortensen

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

Michael Rooker

#8. Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.

Luis De Guindos

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

Michael Rooker

#10. Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Ray Bradbury

#11. 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.

Michael Rooker

#12. You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.

Sven Lindqvist

#13. 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.

Michael Rooker

#14. (I resent people who use phrases like "my first," so the person they're speaking to is practically obliged to imagine them having sex to complete the sentence. It's not nice.)

Anna Maxted

#15. We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. In so many ways this

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Michael Rooker

#17. At the heart of Darwin's theory,

Elizabeth Kolbert

#18. After a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

Washington Irving

#19. There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.

Margaret Drabble

#20. '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.

Michael Rooker

#21. I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Stephen King

#22. 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.

Michael Rooker

#23. You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.

Hanan Ashrawi

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

Michael Rooker

#25. He looks at me, not like he's waiting for an explanation, but like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at.

Veronica Roth

#26. Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

Woody Allen

#27. Better living through chemistry

P. Dupont

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

Michael Rooker

#29. 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.

Michael Rooker

#30. 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.

Michael Rooker