35 Quotes by James Ransone

I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

I like theater; I just don't really like actors.

'Generation Kill' was not a very glamorous shoot. For all intents and purposes, it was low budget, and all the money they had went to what you see on the screen.

The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.

I'm not going to say I'm really streetwise, but I might be more than most people.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

I just auditioned for 'The Wire' like I just auditioned for any other job.

Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.