Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I've been dipping my toes back into TV.
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
I've got a stack of the 'Walking Dead' comic books next to my bed here.
I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.
There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.
Persistence pays off.
I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.
Women are surprised to see me on the street - like they're seeing a ghost. There's a lot of crying involved.
I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.
I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.
I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.
I do some of my best work when I'm dead.
I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.
You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.
I feel like every day I'm exceedingly lucky.
I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
I am a family man at heart.
Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for 'Grey's Anatomy.' That's the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.
I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and so as an actor, I really wanted to do something as far from that as I could.
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
I like to push myself, you know.
I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.
I'm easy to get along with - I'm not a diva.
I was a huge fan of the original Red Dawn. America and brothers, you can't beat that in my world. I think there's nothing greater.
Ian McShane's character in 'Deadwood' was awesome.
I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.
The directors you want to work with are in the television world.
It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.
The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.
A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.
I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.
The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.
My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.
Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.
Turns out I'm getting old.
I don't think that I'm as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke's body on my head, that would be just great.
Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.
In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.
Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.
It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.
To do this movie in a watered-down fashion or have these characters be watered down wouldn't have been near as effective. It wouldn't have been staying true to what this 'Watchmen' phenomenon is.
It's mostly women who I get really weird fan mail from.
Jon Hamm - I know him. I love him.
I have this weird allergy where metal can't touch my skin.
Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.
Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.
I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.
A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.
I'm just a happy guy.
I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.
I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
Miami is not optimal for raising a child.
My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.
I've been kicking around this business for a long time.
Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.
There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.
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