50 Quotes by Michael Madsen

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

'BloodRayne' was an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie.

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.

I swim a lot, almost every day. I just go out to the beach by my place in Malibu and jump into the ocean.

Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.

I'm not a publicity hound. I don't care about being on the cover of 'GQ' or 'Vanity Fair.'

People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

What people don't always understand is that I established a certain lifestyle for my family back in the days of 'Species' and 'Mulholland Falls' and 'The Getaway.' I wasn't about to move my six kids into a trailer park. So when people offered me work, it wasn't always the best, but I had to buy groceries, and I had to put gas in the car.

I'm a leading man trapped in a bad guy's body.