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Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.
Gary Cole
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Gary Cole
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 20
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Park Ridge
Illinois
Gary Michael Cole
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More quotes by Gary Cole
I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.
Gary Cole
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
Gary Cole
I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
Gary Cole
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
Gary Cole
It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.
Gary Cole
I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.
Gary Cole
A show that's been successful that been on a while, chances are it's going to stay that way. At least it's going to maintain some kind of standard. But when a show begins, there's no telling. Even after 13 shows or a whole year, you don't know what will become of it.
Gary Cole
You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
Gary Cole
I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
Gary Cole
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
Gary Cole
Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
Gary Cole
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
Gary Cole
I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
Gary Cole
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
Gary Cole
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
Gary Cole
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
Gary Cole
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
Gary Cole
To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.
Gary Cole
If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.
Gary Cole
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole