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

• I've done movies where you just show up on set and all of a sudden you're with another guy and you're acting with them and you don't know anything about them and that's hard. (Steve Zahn)
• In the end I'm probably home half the time. (Steve Zahn) [start/housing/time]
• It never ends, that never ends; it's never like you're sitting in the backyard on your lawn chair with your beer just kicked back waiting for the call. (Steve Zahn) [beer]
• It's got to be about the story. That's what I think my job is. I'm there to service the story. (Steve Zahn) [think/service]
• Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody. (Steve Zahn) [wish]
• Literally, I read the script a lot and I learn it, no matter what the part is - how big or small the part is. I put a lot of thought into it and I think about it constantly. (Steve Zahn) [matter/think]
• Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway. (Steve Zahn) [people]
• My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon. (Steve Zahn)
• Not that I think improv is bad, but I just rely more on a character than trying to think of something to say. If something comes out, it comes out. (Steve Zahn) [think/bad/more/character]
• NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is an actual organization. (Steve Zahn)
• So maybe I'll play the crazy sidekicks throughout my whole life and that will be fine. Or maybe I'll do sidekick parts and in five years it will be a different thing. I don't know, maybe. (Steve Zahn) [crazy/life/willpower/willpower]
• The things that I laugh at are crazy people, people who take themselves so seriously. The guy mad in the grocery store line is funny. You put it in a movie and it's hysterical, if it's done right. (Steve Zahn) [crazy/people/people/take]
• There's a lot of balancing involved, especially when you have people knowing what you do and associate you with certain types of characters. (Steve Zahn) [people]
• We forget about listening. With kids, you have to because it's the only way you're going to be good - to react to what they're doing, and to mesh with them. (Steve Zahn) [forget]
• What it all really comes down to is reading a character that you think that you can do well. That's the hard part. finding that, and you hope that it falls into something like the war picture or the western. (Steve Zahn) [reading/character/think/war]
• When I show up on a film set, I don't want to worry in my trailer about what I'm doing. I want to play PlayStation because I don't get to play that at home. (Steve Zahn) [film/worry/housing]
• When you're acting and you're pretending there's bees, you're pretending. You're not acting anymore because it's all about looking right as opposed to this movie where no, there's a real helicopter chasing us so you get a real reaction. (Steve Zahn) [bees/right/movie]
• Yeah. I mean, I've been approached with other kind of, I don't know, sidekick parts, especially in these movies. So much of the time they're these fops who are always trying to catch up and falling down and you just want the lead to shoot him in the head. (Steve Zahn) [time]
• You don't have to be best friends to be best friends in a movie. (Steve Zahn) [movie]
• You have to listen to one another and you have to trust the director is going to be able to pull the things out that you do and piece it together in the right way. (Steve Zahn) [trust/director/right]
• You subconsciously know when actors are pretending to the air. It's just this fake video game. (Steve Zahn) [actors]
• You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people. (Steve Zahn) [search/changes/people]

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