27 Quotes by Lee Tergesen

I really don't feel like I'm being typecast,

I pretty much do what I like. There was a little concern when I first started the show from TNT that maybe I was a little too soft. They didn't really get where I was coming from, because I'm funny.

He's sort of a loose cannon with a quick wit, ... He's somebody who of course is intense. I always wind up playing somebody a little intense. Maybe I'm just intense.

I don't know if I'll ever have a job that, on so many levels, was so great, ... I was working with so many close friends, and the material was really juicy. I think we ended it at the right time, and I definitely look back fondly.

If God's in me, he's a tumor.

If God’s in me, he’s a tumor.

I know what it’s like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it’s a holding cell.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He’s always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn’t sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He’s hoping that he would fight back.