56 Quotes by Michael Cudlitz

You’ve gotta take care of the body you’ve got. You’ve got to be fit. You’ve got to be active. You’ve got to be healthy. We don’t need to be pictures in a magazine.

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of ‘blue-collar working person.’ I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

Everybody works in a different way, and I’ve worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.

The truth just happens – lies take time to make.

When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, “Well, do I want to be away from home for that long? Do I like the people involved?” When it’s written well, a lot of those things go away and you can’t not do it.

A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don’t take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say ‘no.’ But ‘no’ in a positive way.

If you disarm someone’s hands – they cannot kill you!

Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you’re probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.'