To swing or not to swing? Swing. (Sockman Ralph W.)
He never patronizes them. He can be quite idiosyncratic. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, ... My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I usually describe it as, 'Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails, salt, pipe and how to get home -- as tormented by a hubristic, racist inner psyche. (Sockman Ralph W.)
He suffers from the same frailties and hormonal-related problems as all sorts of people his age, but he's also going through this massive thing of almost paranoia, where someone's trying to get at him, trying to destroy his life, but he doesn't know who. Some invisible force is trying to tamper with his life in some way. (Sockman Ralph W.)
No sex between Mulder and Scully! Only deep friendship. People thinking there's more than that between us amuses me. With Gillian, we've created the illusion of romance. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Everybody can watch the two characters-well, not just the two characters but the whole show-and know that everybody's a ruddy fool! We're just there to entertain people and it works. It's great-and we need a bit more of that in this day and age, don't we? (Sockman Ralph W.)
Technically, I direct myself as a character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I remember being very excited when I was invited to do the show because I thought I was going to have a large, bulbous prosthetic head with pulsating veins. I ended up being the first nerd on the Starship Enterprise! It turned out to be a neat character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I trip off it. You know what's interesting about the makeup is when you get up close and you know he's been working on your face, and you see where the makeup starts and it stops, and how seamless it is. You could look at it for hours. (Sockman Ralph W.)
He's kind of this empty vessel of a character, ... His awkward sensibilities, his neuroses, I loved those things. . . (Sockman Ralph W.)
Getting away from Frodo comes up a lot (Sockman Ralph W.)
It was a wonderful project to work on, and a very different character for me. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I do think there was an active choice to do something small, as simple as it may sound, just so I didn't have to work on something for 16 months. The idea of two months, nice and contained, just about character, and no time in makeup was a thrill to me. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I think we may see a lot of the old characters come back. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. (Sockman Ralph W.)
My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father. (Sockman Ralph W.)
What I like about Esteban is that he's just - he's not trying to be anything. He's just a good man and a good father. He's not out there chasing untenable dreams. (Sockman Ralph W.)
[as the garbage compactor closes in]
Han Solo: One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner. [Star Wars] (Sockman Ralph W.)
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