Patric Quotes & Sayings

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else. — Jason Patric

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it. — Jason Patric

It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes. — Jason Patric

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. — Jason Patric

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie. — Jason Patric

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in ... it didn't used to be that way. — Jason Patric

They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there. You're less likely to find it on network prime-time series, but the creep is moving in that direction. It has become intrusive and overwhelming to us as a union of writers. — Patric Verrone

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. — Jason Patric

Well, I had a wolverine. It was supposed to be a cat, but Jason (Patric) is allergic to cats. I can't remember where I got it. Some back alley taxidermy, maybe? But I think I got it at The Bay taxidermy department. Downtown Winnipeg. Next to the tumbleweeds. — Guy Maddin

The death of their two children isn't the erasure of two beings. It is the loss of God and the skies, it is the loss of the past and the future, of all their small-voiced words and their hearts. — A.S. Patric

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office. — Jason Patric

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand. — Jason Patric

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me. — Jason Patric

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game. — Jason Patric

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting. — Jason Patric

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie. — Jason Patric

you can see, opportunity exists everywhere. Ideas could now be turned into cash easily. Turned into wealth. — Patric Chan

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price. — Jason Patric

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement. — Jason Patric

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back. — Jason Patric

In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench and ponder, sometimes aloud. Some got answers and some got headaches. And now, in this new age of jet planes and pistachio ice-cream, we pondered over the same questions without getting the answers and maybe in five thousand years, some other kids will be sitting on roofs pondering the same all over again. Not far from the Shepherd's star, there was a discreet star, one who didn't shine too brightly. I had it named "Goddessa". It was mine. — Patric Juillet

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2. — Jason Patric

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between. — Jason Patric

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money. — Jason Patric

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink. — Jason Patric

I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters? — Joe Carnahan

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have. — Jason Patric

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director. — Jason Patric

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not. — Jason Patric

I try to stay under the radar. — Jason Patric

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch. — Jason Patric

My method seems to change to everything, especially when you get older. You have more of a resonance to be able to grab to. When you're younger, you have these big boundaries because you don't know how to get you to where you are. When you get older, you have a few tricks that you can pull off. — Jason Patric