Dourif Quotes & Sayings

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles. — Brad Dourif

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences. — Brad Dourif

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. — Brad Dourif

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent. — Penelope Cruz

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important. — June Jordan

There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm. — David Kirschner

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. — Brad Dourif

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it. — Brad Dourif

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to. — Kristin Davis

To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering. — Charles Dickens

If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we? — Brad Dourif

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves. — Brad Dourif

All women deserve access to care that can save their lives. — Christy Turlington

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes. — Bob Goff

Flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. - John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Step — Neal Stephenson

There have been times that we've had arguments with Brad [Dourif] because he comes in with very strong ideas and, as in any working relationship, sometimes you're going to disagree, and he always goes to the mat and I've just always appreciated that attitude, that he takes it so seriously. — David Kirschner

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog — Corrie Ten Boom

Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray, it's impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. I mean, he's just so great. Over the course of the five movies, he always just takes it so seriously, doesn't condescend to the material, whatsoever and just treats it as if he was playing Hamlet. — David Kirschner

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way. — Brad Dourif

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out. — Brad Dourif

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing. — Brad Dourif

Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him a little bit. I just think maybe they have similar voices. — David Kirschner

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends. — Brad Dourif

What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked on alot. And there is something about Grima, he has been picked on when he was a kid, he (Grima) is so distrustful, he is so easily corrupted, He is so ugly, and he wants somebody, he wants to love somebody, and he can't, because nobody will have him. — Brad Dourif

Beckett, don't make me ask you to come upstairs and check in the closets. She laid her hands on his cheeks. Just come upstairs. — Nora Roberts

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role. — Brad Dourif