Brad Dourif Quotes

• I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

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• I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

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• The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

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• If it’s stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it’s film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

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• If it wasn’t for the devil, we wouldn’t be here, would we?

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• We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

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• I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

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• Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody’s going to hire me for that kind of role.

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• I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can’t even walk into the room when she’s watching them with her friends.

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• I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

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• I’m formally trained, I don’t know what classically trained really means. I’ve worked with Sanford Meisner. And I’ve worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

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• You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

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Brad Dourif (12)

Birth:	18th March, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Voice Artist

About

Brad Dourif was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He is an American actor, voice artist, and comedian who gained early fame for his portrayal of Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which brought him Golden Globe- and BAFTA Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination. He is best known for portraying Charles Lee Ray/Chucky in the Child's Play franchise, Deputy Clinton Pell in Mississippi Burning, Younger Brother in Ragtime, Piter De Vries in David Lynch's Dune, Gríma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings, and Doc Cochran in Deadwood, for which he earned an Emmy Award nomination. Dourif has worked with director Werner Herzog on many occasions, appearing in Scream of Stone, The Wild Blue Yonder, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?.

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