Top 41 Quotes & Sayings by Topher Grace
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.
I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.
I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.
I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.
I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.
My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.
It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.
I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.
You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.
Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.
The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.
I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.
I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write - I have a 'story by' credit on one film I did. And I don't want to edit at all.
My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.
It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.
The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.
The whole acting thing is a buffet. One, in terms of role choice and movie choice, I like to do lots of different things, and I think that's the whole fun of it. But I also see it as a buffet in terms of the character.
It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.
I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.
I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.
I don't talk about my personal life with the press.
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.
I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.
I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.
That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.
Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'
I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.
I love working with people who can teach me, because they're masters of the same business I'm in.
L.A. is this huge epicenter of the most popular person. Can you imagine, every single high school in the world where someone says, "You're so beautiful, you could be a movie star," all of those one people move to this town called L.A.
The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.
I’m not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.
I was in college, it was my first year of college when I got the show, so I've been kinda' partying a lot and drinking a lot and I've never been stoned and when I got the show I got really serious... So I kinda stop drinking, cold turkey so I had never been stoned until... It's something that happened with Mila and Ashton.
What I've been saying to people is that I write it.
To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.
I really need a therapist.
I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.
Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.
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