Gary Cole Quotes

• "A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good."
• "Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage."
• "I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom."
• "I do exercise frequently."
• "I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult."
• "I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going."
• "I identified with it because in different times in your life, you can't believe where you were compared to where you are now."
• "I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem."
• "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."
• "I liked Poison, Metallica and Quiet Riot."
• "I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway."
• "I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
• "I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February."
• "I remember waiting to do a read through at the director's house and Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint came over. I couldn't fathom that."
• "I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on."
• "I still love The Eagles, Jackson Brown, The Who and Frank Zappa."
• "I think I was just your average 20-year-old meatbrain that just waltzed his way through stuff."
• "I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music."
• "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 a senior in high school, in my first class of the day, and it was in Sociology class with Mike Anderson. Mike was a friend of mine that was a linebacker for the football. The teacher asked a question, and he gave an answer that wasn't the brightest response, so I made a joke."
• "I was initially a leading man, but only on television."
• "I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though."
• "If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space."
• "Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long."
• "Now, I do Kim Possible and Harvey Birdman."
• "So I had no concept that there was this whole culture of memos, supervisors, meetings, casual Fridays and lame birthday parties."
• "Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things."
• "There is no handbook about how a career is going to go."
• "When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people."
• "Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices."
• "You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders."
• "You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well."
• "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."