92 Quotes by David Morse

I think that’s really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

I wouldn’t mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I’m not sure that’s the way I’d want to go.

When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I’d never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

What I didn’t realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren’t funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.

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.

I just figured, “If I can do theater, agents will find their way.”

I’d never done any film or television. Well, I’d done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

Because I’d only done theater, that’s really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn’t know how or when.

I didn’t want to do television at all. I really didn’t want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.