Lance Reddick Quotes

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I'm most excited to meet Jon Hamm at the Emmys.

I honestly never really watch the Emmys.

I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

I guess voice acting is just fun, interesting to say...but it is.

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

TV is the rat race of the century.

After a while some of the houseguests at Big Brother can become a little bit high maintenance so they're going to find everything to be irritating. We don't really try to show it on the show. How interesting is that? But we can make a funny story out of it when they complain, complain, complain.

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

I've been enjoying showing the music I perform to these people who have not heard it before. I think it's kind of interesting in a scientific kind of way. I don't mind either way the outcomes of the shows I've played, I just genuinely find it interesting seeing people's reactions.

If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

You try to go with something that's familiar to people and that way they can jump on board with what you're trying to do basically. I only mimic people that really have like interesting voices because it's really hard to mimic like someone who just talks regularly like me like there's nothing fun about that.

One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your mind that you are doing it for posterity, you are doing for the eventual audience and it will be around forever.

I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you going to go back to television?" It's an interesting place.

There is nudity, of course striptease is an essential component of burlesque but it's much more complex and intelligent than a display of nudity for nudity itself. And its often laugh-out-loud funny.