Quotes from Sam Rockwell

I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.

I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

Well, you know, it's fun to sign autographs still for me. I don't sign that many.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

I'm not going to just do a dumb zombie movie, although I love zombie movies.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.