Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Verica

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Tom Verica.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Tom Verica

Tom Verica is an American actor, director, and producer, best known for his role as Sam Keating in the ABC drama How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020). He also played Jack Pryor in the NBC critically acclaimed drama American Dreams from 2002-2004. As a director, he is known for Shonda Rhimes' dramas. He currently is an executive producer and director of the Netflix drama Bridgerton. From 2012 to 2018, Verica served as executive producer and director of ABC Scandal.

If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.
Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.
Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.
I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.'
I guess that is a good compliment for an actor for people to hate you wherever you go.
There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.
My family is very close. I can't say that about many people I meet in Hollywood. — © Tom Verica
My family is very close. I can't say that about many people I meet in Hollywood.
I remember seeing this picture my mother had of Dick Clark. It didn't inspire me to be an actor or anything, but when I did 'American Dreams' with Dick Clark, my mother came out, and she showed him this picture of them that was taken 35 years earlier. It was great.
I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.
Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects. — © Tom Verica
Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.
I can put on my resume: 'Can play dead.'
Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars in it.
I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart.
Myself, I happen to be married to an African-American woman, and we're together 17 years. We took a few trips to the South 15 years ago, and we were sobered by some of the reactions people had - how subtle or not-so-subtle their reactions were.
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