Quotes from Gary Cole

As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.

People get the wrong idea. They think because somebody's visible and works to a degree in some kind of consistent way, they just have a pile of choices. And that's not necessarily true. You can always choose not to audition and see what happens. Sometimes that's a benefit. But most things that I do, I meet on, especially films.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

Whatever's in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.

It's always appealed to me do to something that is whatever 'steady' means in this business. That's what I've kind of searched for, because, having a family, it's the best situation.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

In Washington, there are jobs that have official titles: chief of staff, campaign manager, director of communications. Then there are all these vague and murky headings over people who are just special consultants or advisers. We really don't know what their gig is.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.