David Morse Quotes

• By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that’s what I wanted to do.

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• Everything is interesting to me.

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• Film is a very intimate medium.

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• Home wasn’t a pleasant place to live, growing up.

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• I don’t care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

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• I don’t even know what TV star means. I know there’s a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

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• I don’t like talking about myself. I’m not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

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• I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

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• I try to do things I haven’t been able to before.

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• I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people’s minds.

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• I will be always grateful to NBC.

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• I’m a very private person.

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• I’m acting for the pleasure of it.

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• I’m not sure I always feel like I’m in the seat. Sometimes I’m only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don’t know anybody who doesn’t feel that way.

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• I’ve always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I’ve always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

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• I’ve done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn’t use them because it didn’t match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

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• I’ve tried to let the work I do speak.

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• In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

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• In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

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• It’s great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn’t want to be just stuck in one or the other.

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David Morse (23)

Birth:	11th October, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Screenwriter, Singer, Television Director

About

David Bowditch Morse was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. He is an American actor, singer, TV director, and screenwriter. He continued his film career with roles in Dancer in the Dark, The Indian Runner, The Negotiator, and Hounddog. In 2006, Morse had a recurring role as Detective Michael Tritter on the medical drama series House, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. From 2010 to 2013, he portrayed Terry Colson, an honest police officer in a corrupt New Orleans police department, on the HBO series Treme.

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