Gary Cole Quotes (37 Quotes)


    If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

    When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

    I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

    We're no more than a neighborhood block watch.

    I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.


    Steve is aware we're trying to add more experienced players to the squad and decided a one-year contract would suit him better.

    I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

    You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

    He's real. He will be big. He sits down, talks to people, fields questions. You don't see a lot of artists doing that.

    There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

    A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

    This is professional theater, and we will cast the best people we can. I would love to have a combination of people from the area and the Triangle.

    Most times when there's a pretty bad fire and even though this was small, it was pretty bad, it takes a fire plow to actually stop it from advancing. That was our job. The fire departments did a good job in keeping it off houses and residences, so it was a joint project.

    We cannot understand the behavior of this individual.

    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.

    I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

    I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

    I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

    I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

    Believe me, you don't expect to walk in a town of 40,000 and find a facility like that. Really, it knocked my socks off.

    I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

    I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

    We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

    I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

    You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

    Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.

    I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

    The whole notion is to be able to attract people to stay overnight.

    So I had no concept that there was this whole culture of memos, supervisors, meetings, casual Fridays and lame birthday parties.

    The hairs on the back of my neck stick up with the thought of playing here, and then zooming off mid-week to play in China or Korea in a Champions League match, getting exposure to billions of people. From a commercial perspective, for sponsors and backers, the potential there is quite massive.

    Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

    The glimpses of his personal life against the brutal violence has that schizophrenic quality.

    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.

    Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

    Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

    The fact that he was included in the squad after missing the camp was a fantastic sign,

    I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.


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