29 Quotes by Tim DeKay

Doing ‘White Collar,’ quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.

To be honest, I don’t think there’s anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

I’ve always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I’m showing my age here.

I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular ‘Seinfeld’ was.

It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it’s our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it’s ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you’ve first got to think that person’s a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

I would just love to do ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ I think that movie is fantastic.