Aaron Stanford quotes

Aaron Stanford

"I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to."
Aaron Stanford
Myself Feel Try Something
"Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story."
Aaron Stanford
Good I Can Talk About
"I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character."
Aaron Stanford
Character Look Person Think
"I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away."
Aaron Stanford
Myself Just Actor Blue-Collar
"My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing."
Aaron Stanford
Life Love Secret My Life
"Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it."
Aaron Stanford
Love You Want Like
"People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess."
Aaron Stanford
Love Heart People Feel
"You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do."
Aaron Stanford
Long You Time Moment
"You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back."
Aaron Stanford
Myself You Day End Of The Day
"Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created."
Aaron Stanford
Life Back Something Horror
"I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it."
Aaron Stanford
You War People Think
"I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on."
Aaron Stanford
Follow Complicated Going Story
"Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise."
Aaron Stanford
You Sometimes Know Dark
"It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end."
Aaron Stanford
You Beginning End Know
"But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution."
Aaron Stanford
You Puzzle Pose Questions
"As a fan, when I hear that a film is going to be turned into a television show, I do go to that place immediately of, 'Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be a waste of time? Why are they doing it?' It's '12 Monkeys,' and '12 Monkeys' is awesome, so I wanted to be a part of it and work on it."
Aaron Stanford
Work Good Time Place
"I'm not your traditional action hero."
Aaron Stanford
Hero Action Your Traditional
"Almost all of my favorite shows are limited series. It just seems to be the better way to go."
Aaron Stanford
Better Way Go Just
"It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre."
Aaron Stanford
Love Work Science Great
"Obviously, you're always happy when you can tell a story completely from beginning to end and tell it in a satisfying way, where you're able to make yourself happy and make the audience happy."
Aaron Stanford
You Yourself Way Happy
"I worshiped Judd Nelson in 'The Breakfast Club' growing up. I must've seen that movie 100 times."
Aaron Stanford
Breakfast Club Growing Up Up
"I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that's for sure."
Aaron Stanford
Know Sit How Absolutely
"When you're done with a job, even if you do stay in contact with certain people, it's never quite the same. It's a unique experience when you're working on a film or a television show together. You're together for 16 hours every day, sometimes six days a week. You're just never going to have that proximity again. So you miss people."
Aaron Stanford
Experience You People Day
"The show is '12 Monkeys,' and I'm playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film '12 Monkeys.' It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal."
Aaron Stanford
Character Future Time Stop
"Bruce Dern was fascinating. He's an amazing character. If you put him in a room at a table, you will sit there for the next five days and listen to everything he has to say and be fascinated by it. He's great."
Aaron Stanford
Character You Great Amazing
"Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress."
Aaron Stanford
Stage Acting Actress She
"I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm saying?"
Aaron Stanford
You Never Think Know
"It's fun playing villains. It's people who are not held by any moral constraints - or any constraints, for that matter. It's a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life."
Aaron Stanford
Life You People Matter
"I read a lot of war literature."
Aaron Stanford
War Literature Read Lot
"I'm sure some of the characters in 'X-Men' had a lot of physically demanding stuff to do, but my character's pretty much stand-and-deliver, stand there and throw fire at people. There's no acrobatics or anything."
Aaron Stanford
Character People Fire Stand
"That's just part of being in 'X-Men.' There's, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you're happy for anything you can get."
Aaron Stanford
You Happy Anything Like
"It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end."
Aaron Stanford
Nice Stories Beginning Middle And End
"It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end."
Aaron Stanford
Nice Stories Beginning Middle And End
"My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing."
Aaron Stanford
Book Secret Acting
"Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created."
Aaron Stanford
Icons Horror Film
"People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess."
Aaron Stanford
Heart People Safe
"You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news? I'm the worst one."
Aaron Stanford
Mutants News Dangerous
"You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do."
Aaron Stanford
Long Challenges Actors
"You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back."
Aaron Stanford
Character The End Of The Day Connections
"The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son."."
Aaron Stanford
Jobs Son Hands
"Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story."
Aaron Stanford
Talking Stories Scripts
"I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character."
Aaron Stanford
Character Thinking Different
"I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it."
Aaron Stanford
War Thinking Opposites
"I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to."
Aaron Stanford
Character Interesting Trying
"I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on."
Aaron Stanford
Book Men Ideas
"I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away."
Aaron Stanford
Blue Actors Blue Collar
"But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution."
Aaron Stanford
Giving Shows Solutions
"Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it."
Aaron Stanford
Love Is Giving Interesting

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