Vincent Kartheiser Quotes

• I’ve worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I’ve seen their work on the screen and I’ve been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It’s not like stage. It’s not a kind of performance art anymore; it’s a highly tuned kind of collaboration – a symphony.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Performance, Working

• It’s easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it’s like, just try to look good. Or maybe don’t use Spelling there, that’s bad. No – you can. He’s dead.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Shakespeare, Spelling

• And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I’m thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn’t a cool thing to be.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cool, Actor

• Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn’t have some kind of internal struggle, it’s no good for me.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Struggle

• I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he’s a baker.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Age

  Tags in People, Villages

• But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don’t have a car I don’t really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Feeling, Process

• I’ve never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don’t understand women, I’m off that kick.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Understand

• Storytelling is the important thing.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things

• I don’t have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don’t think I’m rich.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Thinking

• I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commercial

Vincent Kartheiser (10)

Birth:	5th May, 1979
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

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Vincent Paul Kartheiser is an American actor known for playing Connor in Angel and Pete Campbell in Mad Men.

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