83 Quotes by Tony Goldwyn

I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well – he’s a character in the movie – and I got very passionate about the cause. It’s just so inherently dramatic.

I think the problem with polemics is that it’s general and it’s lazy. When you say, “This is bad,” that’s a general thing. We’re more interested in asking the question.

I’ve been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

My mother’s whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn’t that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

I think I’ve inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I’ll just hang in there with something until it happens.

I don’t want to do an action movie, because I’ve acted in them, and they’re so boring to do, because they’re so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don’t have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant’s knee or something like that.

It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you’re sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.

It takes courage to acknowledge uncertainty. And nothing is more attractive than demonstrating to another person that he or she is of value to you.