Justin Kirk Quotes
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I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I'm thinking "What am I going to talk about today?"
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No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
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I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.
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I think my favorite movie is Joe Versus the Volcano - or maybe Multiple Maniacs by John Waters.
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I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.
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I'm not married and I don't have kids, and so I like to go to work.
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I used to say that pot took away from my rent, and now it pays it.
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Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.
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I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.
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Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.
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After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.
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There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.
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It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.
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