Anthony Michael Hall Quotes

• You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that’s remembered.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• Well, I’ve learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I’m shooting a scene and someone’s driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• Well, I’ve just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• We don’t want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• There’ve been many a season where I couldn’t get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can’t really do it.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• That, we encourage, and I think we’re doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season’s being prepared now.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• So I think it’s fair to say it’s even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there’s such a pressure to look good, to be s*xy and be palatable to people on whatever level.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it’s a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• It’s funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn’t that kid anymore, and I wasn’t a character actor, and I wasn’t a leading man, and I wasn’t whatever Hollywood was looking for.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I’m proud of the work, playing Gates.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I’ve done in my life is between jobs.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• I think it’s even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

  Anthony Michael Hall

• I think in both of those situations, it’s important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it’s important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

  Anthony Michael Hall

Anthony Michael Hall (25)

Birth:	14th April, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Producer

About

Anthony Michael Hall was born in West Roxbury, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. He  is an American actor, film producer, and director who starred in several teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child, and made his screen debut in 1980. His films with director-screenwriter John Hughes, beginning with the popular 1983 comedy National Lampoon's Vacation and the coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles, shaped his early career. Hall's next movies with Hughes were the teen classics The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, both in 1985. His performances as lovable geeks in these three films connected his name and face with the stereotype for an entire generation.  He had the leading role in the USA Network series The Dead Zone, from 2002 to 2007. During its run, the show was one of the highest-rated cable television series.

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