American - Actor | October 16, 1971 -
A lot of times, sets are not such fun places to be, and especially television sets, because everybody works so hard, and everybody's kind of grumbling about getting up at 3 o'clock in the morning and not getting home until midnight.
Paul Sparks
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As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
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There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.
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The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.
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As far as the destiny of the character, I just play them until they're gone. I try not to get too involved.
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As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.
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I don't know everybody's political opinions, but I think the majority of people in the arts are pretty leftist, and we're disappointed in the Trump administration.
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I just came home one day and, in a midlife-crisis sort of way, I told my wife, 'I'm going to run a marathon,' not really understanding what that was. Then I just kind of got into it, and now that I have been running pretty consistently over the past few years, I don't know if it's because I love it or because I hate myself. I just really enjoy it.
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I think that's kind of nice that there's this kind of inherent respect between runners who do a marathon. People respect somebody who has done it, and I will do anything to get some respect because I don't get a lot respect in my life.
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I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.
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