Top 51 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Dorff

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Stephen Dorff.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr. is an American actor. He is known for portraying Roland West in the third season of HBO's crime drama anthology series True Detective, PK in The Power of One, Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, Glen in The Gate, and for his roles in Cecil B. DeMented, The Motel Life, S.F.W., Space Truckers, and in Blade as vampire mastermind Deacon Frost.

American - Actor | Born: July 29, 1973

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Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.

Stephen Dorff

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

Stephen Dorff

I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.

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It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.

Stephen Dorff

I moved to L.A. when I was, like, 6 months old. I was born in Georgia 'cause my dad was going to college at the University of Georgia for music. Then we moved to the Valley, and my dad was a songwriter out here.

Stephen Dorff

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

Stephen Dorff

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

Stephen Dorff

In a movie script, you know what the moments are that you really have to hit it out of the park.

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I think that when I was younger and had my first round of big success and was plastered on magazine covers in the early and mid-'90s, I was kind of outspoken and had kind of a pretty aggressive attitude in my life.

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I've never really dated actresses except when I was really young.

Stephen Dorff

When I played Candy Darling in 'I Shot Andy Warhol,' that was easy to play that part. They made me into a woman: I'm in heels; I'm waxed. I'm gonna find the femininity and lay on the bed and take the voice of an old movie star.

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I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I said, 'I'm just from the Valley!' Just from the San Fernando Valley!

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I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

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I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Stephen Dorff

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

Stephen Dorff

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

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I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

Stephen Dorff

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Stephen Dorff

I want to make a movie where people are, like, 'Whoa.'

Stephen Dorff

But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17.

Stephen Dorff

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

Stephen Dorff

When I was 17, I was going to go to college because I couldn't get a movie.

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I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

Stephen Dorff

I have a smaller bottom lip, but in 'Wheeler,' I had a lip over my lip. It's fat, and it helped with my accent.

Stephen Dorff

Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.

Stephen Dorff

Living at the beach, it's hard to get out of the sun.

Stephen Dorff

My first manager was this lady named Booh Schut. She actually worked with me on my auditions.

Stephen Dorff

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

Stephen Dorff

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Stephen Dorff

My mom always wanted me to do movies where I played, whether I had flaws or not, guys that had a good heart.

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I watch a lot of movies.

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I don't think Jack Nicholson has ever called me Stephen. He's like, 'Hey, Dorff. How are ya?'

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Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

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It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

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I used to play around and sing Randy Travis for my dad. I'd always be able to just mimic things.

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I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a concept of 'assets,' but as I got a little older, I bought art.

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I like being creative.

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I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people talk.

Stephen Dorff

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

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In my early 20s, I was buying Kristofferson records. I loved his acting; then I found out all the songs he wrote. I loved the Highwaymen. I collected all that stuff.

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You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

Stephen Dorff

I've just had some things to deal with, like family stuff, you know, lost my mom. Which is the most difficult stuff I've gone through. But it's just normal human stuff.

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I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Stephen Dorff

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

Stephen Dorff

I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

Stephen Dorff

There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.

Stephen Dorff

I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.

Stephen Dorff

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys. I always wanted to be around adults when I was young.

Stephen Dorff

I got a lion on my back because I'm a Leo, and I also just love lions. But I wish I'd researched the artwork a little more. My little sister saw it and said, "Why do you have the Lion King on your back?"

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A girl I fall in love with will not have been like I was. I would like the girl who's had serious boyfriends, with maybe a wild phase where she had a couple one-night stands and that was that. Not the one who went for it like I did.

Stephen Dorff

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face, I pretend that they're not there. But I actually like being on my own, I like being in the space.

Stephen Dorff