126 Quotes by Mike Colter

I rarely feel like I'm in chaos, but when I am, I usually [retreat] and try to find the eye of the storm; if I'm still and listen and don't engage, maybe the chaos will subside.

When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way. She's proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I'm kind of taking up where she left off.

I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.

Auditions are great, and you definitely want to continue to make progress as an actor, you want to continue to see some advancement in your career. But when you get out there, you don't realize how many auditions you have to go on before you actually get work.

When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.

If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.