Top 39 Quotes & Sayings by Skeet Ulrich

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Skeet Ulrich

Skeet Ulrich is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in popular 1990s films, including Billy Loomis in Scream (1996) and Scream (2022), Chris Hooker in The Craft (1996) and Vincent Lopiano in As Good as It Gets (1997). Since 2017, he has starred as Forsythe Pendleton "F.P." Jones II on The CW's Riverdale. His other television roles include Johnston Jacob "Jake" Green Jr. in the television series Jericho, and LAPD Detective Rex Winters, a Marine veteran from the Law & Order franchise.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. — © Skeet Ulrich
Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.
Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.
Everyone's really lazy in L.A.
The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
I get to play a killer next.
I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.
As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.
I think you have to refill the well at some point. — © Skeet Ulrich
I think you have to refill the well at some point.
The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.
I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.
I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
Everybody else has been seen, been proven.
There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.
I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.
I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.
People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.
I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about. — © Skeet Ulrich
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.
I had gone to school to study marine biology.
As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.
I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
I think Im extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like youre getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. Im working through it, which is good. As an actor, I think that you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase.
Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative. — © Skeet Ulrich
Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.
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