Steve Zahn quotes Born: 11/13/1967 Country: usa

• A good character makes your job a lot easier, I know it sounds corny but a really well written character makes it. (Steve Zahn) [character/character]
• At the beginning, when I first started acting, for years I did theater. (Steve Zahn)
• But when I'm home, I'm home all the time with my kids, with my wife, with the farm. (Steve Zahn) [housing/housing/time/wife]
• But, you know, being a character actor enables you to be in different types of movies, and it changes you automatically. (Steve Zahn) [being/character/changes]
• Especially in an action movie, where it has more to do with you timing with the explosion or the helicopter coming through. There's not a lot of room for screwing around. (Steve Zahn) [action/movie/more]
• First time director, studio film, comedy, there's this list of people and I'm not on the list for the lead guys. I'm on the list for these guys over here. (Steve Zahn) [time/director/film/people]
• I can't even explain it, living in a small town on the edge of the Sahara, I mean you're not visiting any more after a week. (Steve Zahn) [more]
• I do work, but I have a lot of moments of downtime, too. (Steve Zahn)
• I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts. (Steve Zahn) [care]
• I don't have a plan, I just want to do the next good thing for me. (Steve Zahn) [thing]
• I don't read novels, I read history. (Steve Zahn)
• I don't want to compete with Jude Law, nor should I. (Steve Zahn) [right]
• I got good grades. I just told jokes and got through class. (Steve Zahn) [class]
• I hate things that don't make sense. (Steve Zahn)
• I have a very traditional background. (Steve Zahn)
• I haven't done a play since '94, but I still go to work in the same way, with the same preparation and the same respect for the script and same respect for the director, and I'll be able to do whatever you want within your parameters, just let me go, blah, blah, blah. (Steve Zahn) [respect/respect/director]
• I like micro histories. I like reading about little tiny events, not huge. (Steve Zahn) [reading]
• I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. (Steve Zahn) [war]
• I live in Kentucky on a farm. Lot of military history I love. (Steve Zahn) [military/love]
• I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there. (Steve Zahn) [love/time]
• I read a lot and I live in horse country, so I just read a book about two Confederate guerillas who came to the thoroughbred farms - my neighbors - and stole horses for their mounts and they were worth thousands and thousands of dollars. (Steve Zahn) [horse]
• I think if you're really in it, and if you're really an actor, you're always trying to get the good movie, to tell the good story. (Steve Zahn) [think/movie]
• I think we're barraged with movies where it's not important that the people are real people. They can be perfect bodies and do the 62 flips and catch knives and then talk in iambic pentameter for a second before they throw it back. (Steve Zahn) [think/people/people/perfect]
• I usually hook up to a film and then, in a month and a half, I'm out, gone. (Steve Zahn) [film]
• I wasn't a cut up class clown kind of guy although my dad gave me George Carlin's Class Clown hen I was like nine years old. (Steve Zahn) [class/class]
• I'd much rather go into something as an actor, and just try to make every moment real. Do you know what I mean? Playing a character, but not getting too wrapped up in it. (Steve Zahn) [moment/character]
• I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids. (Steve Zahn) [time]
• I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero. That's not interesting to me. I don't know anybody like that. (Steve Zahn) [character/more]
• I'm like a kid still so if I read a script where there are fast cars I'm there. (Steve Zahn)
• 'm not a leading guy. (Steve Zahn)
• I'm theater trained. (Steve Zahn)

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