Jeff Perry Quotes

A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'

- Jeff Perry

During 'Anna Christie,' the biggest challenge I had was working with my daughter and sort of not stopping and asking an audience member for a camera to record the moment.

- Jeff Perry

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

- Jeff Perry

I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.

- Jeff Perry

I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.

- Jeff Perry

Gary Sinise and I go the furthest back of the Steppenwolf people; we were both saved from academic mediocrity as sophomores by being cast in 'West Side Story' by this transformationally beautiful teacher named Barbara Patterson.

- Jeff Perry

I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.

- Jeff Perry

I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

- Jeff Perry

Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.

- Jeff Perry

This kind of one-on-one connection of tweeting, I've really grown to get a kick out of.

- Jeff Perry

I'm pretty peaceful and calm and sweet.

- Jeff Perry

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

- Jeff Perry

When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

- Jeff Perry

I don't have much estimation of my abilities as a director, but I found I loved class and loved process and loved practice. And so I've put together classes of actors - oh my God - since I was 21 years old, I think.

- Jeff Perry

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

- Jeff Perry

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

- Jeff Perry

I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.

- Jeff Perry

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

- Jeff Perry

Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that.

- Jeff Perry

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

- Jeff Perry

To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'

- Jeff Perry