Quotes from Patrick J. Adams

I love Robert Capa.

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of 'Suits.' It's broken into such small pieces.

'Suits' is 'Suits.' It's grown and changed and evolved in lots of ways that I'm super proud of, but as an actor on a show like this, you try and make it something other than what it is sometimes.

By the time I got 'Suits,' I thought my time in Hollywood was coming to an end.

I believe in picking a strong ending.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.

We'd get into trouble a lot in school, and I could sweet talk my way out of it. I was really a charmer: I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down, and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating.

The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored.

I've definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about.

To get a job as a blackjack dealer, you have to be able to count very quickly. Obviously, you need to do at least math, adding up to 21 very quickly.

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working. I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people. I've spent a lot of years getting to know people in the business, and that really helps. It depends. You can have some pretty terrible auditions.

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

I'm really blessed with the people in my life who keep me on track and keep pushing me forward.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

For me, university was a bit of a rebellious streak. I love teachers but I'm inherently a bit of an anarchist and don't trust you because you're my teacher. Somewhere around my second or third year, I realized as an artist that it's up to us to choose our path, and there's nothing wrong with being given many different tools to put in your tool bag.

I don't think people can die on 'Suits.' It's still, at its heart, an aspirational show, and it would be so hard to watch these people wrestle with that.