Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Puppy, Hard, Boo, Handful

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Artist, Sold, Fancied, Bars

What's special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Miami, Special, Beaches, Collision

I have this weird allergy where metal can't touch my skin.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Weird, Skin, Metal, Allergy

I always was irritated doing network television... You're in love, you make love. That happens.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Doing, Always, Network Television

I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Beard, Dye, His, Guys

'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Some, Which, Mostly, Shining

Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for 'Grey's Anatomy.' That's the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I Think, Anatomy, Had, New World

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

College, Play, Reason, Play Basketball

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Doing, Star, Been, Guest Star

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Change, Want, Always, Just Looking

I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Character, Parts, Spots, Tons

Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Myself, Saw, Edward, Blake

A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Watch, Cannot, Watchmen, Spiderman

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Mind, Doing, Bending, Watchmen

In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Question, Like, Gonna, Watchmen

To do this movie in a watered-down fashion or have these characters be watered down wouldn't have been near as effective. It wouldn't have been staying true to what this 'Watchmen' phenomenon is.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Movie, Been, Staying, Watchmen

I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and so as an actor, I really wanted to do something as far from that as I could.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Think, Pretty, I Think, Watchmen

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Some, Names, Breaks, Naming

I think you judge your career by the scripts that are being sent your way.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Career, Think, I Think, Scripts

I haven't watched a lot of episodes of 'The Good Wife.' I never even saw the show until I signed on, and then I watched seven episodes.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Wife, Good Wife, Saw, Episodes

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Uncle, Always, Comic Books, Comic Book

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Raining, Exterior, Snowing, Daunting

Ian McShane's character in 'Deadwood' was awesome.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Character, Awesome, Deadwood

Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what's going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I'm aware of.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Through, I Think, Tendency, Comedic

I literally will write Shonda Rhimes, the creator of 'Grey's,' an e-mail once a month or so and just say, 'Hey, I love you and thank you.' That was my moment. Because of that, I'm doing 'Magic City.'

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Magic, Doing, E-Mail

He is scary as the butcher, but you will not meet a lovelier, more interesting guy than Danny Huston. His stories leave me spellbound. I adore him.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Will, More, Stories, Danny

If it's football season, all things sort of stop. I'm from Seattle, so I'll watch the Seahawks and whatever other game that day is worthy.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Game, Worthy, Other, Season

I'm easy to get along with - I'm not a diva.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Easy, Get, Along, Diva

There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Die, Going, Looked, Table

I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Got, Dad, Affair

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Media, Social, Got, Social Media

I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Woods, Way, Really, Send

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Doing, Feel, Away, Bored

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Okay, Bother, Actually, Spiders

Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Doing, Through, TV, Greatest Thing

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Happen, Kick, Things, Good Things

Women are surprised to see me on the street - like they're seeing a ghost. There's a lot of crying involved.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

See, Like, Lot, Women Are

I like to push myself, you know.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Myself, Know, Like, Push

My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The characters are much better.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Will, Another, Agent, Novel

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Maybe, Rough, Exterior, Accustomed

Once I got over my initial butterflies, being in the same room and doing a scene with Jimmy Caan was great. I never backed down for one second against him. I loved it. I love those moments. Working with people like that is the greatest joy you can get as an actor.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Doing, Butterflies, Jimmy

Since Chris Albrecht took over the network, I think more and more people are finding Starz. He made HBO what HBO became, and now he's doing the same thing at Starz.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Doing, I Think, Became, HBO

Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Thug, Comedian, Essentially, Nice Guy

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Work, Best, Some, Best Work

I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Kind, Supernatural, Stories, Ghost

Persistence pays off.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Off, Pays, Persistence

Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film an action movie here where you're outside, and you're running around all day.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Here, Movie, Puerto

I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Feel, Like, Going, Shoot

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Myself, Been, Angeles, Los Angeles

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Because, Worked, Mostly, Horrendous

A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Through, Going, Could, Divorce

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Doing, Line, Almost, Unemployment

If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that's all I would do. It's my favorite movie to make. There's something about being a cowboy.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Rest, My Life, Cowboy, If I Could

I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Fell, Even, Mark

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Lucky, Why, Been, Awhile

I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Want, Hang, About, I Care

Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Some, Always, Nights

I had no intention of being an actor, ever.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Actor, Had, Ever, Intention

It's mostly women who I get really weird fan mail from.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Weird, Fan, Mostly, Fan Mail

I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Say, Move, About, Ireland

I was a huge fan of the original Red Dawn. America and brothers, you can't beat that in my world. I think there's nothing greater.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Think, Original, I Think, Huge Fan

Turns out I'm getting old.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Old, Getting, Turns, Getting Old

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Think, I Think, Freeing

I go to Comic-Con every year, generally with some project of some sort.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Go, Year, Some, Comic-Con

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Bed, Back, Against, Katherine

I've been dipping my toes back into TV.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Back, Been, TV, Dipping

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Big, More, Western

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

You, Western

Within a five-month period, I got 'Weeds,' 'Supernatural,' and 'Grey's.' I think a lot of it had to do with luck.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Think, I Think, Period, Weeds

I've got a stack of the 'Walking Dead' comic books next to my bed here.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Bed, Next, Here, Comic

The great thing about Starz is that there's not a lot of restrictions.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Restrictions, About, Lot, Great Thing

I love Bill Murray, but I'm not quite Bill Murray. I wish!

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Wish, I Love, None

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Practice, Hands, Swing, Bat

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Decade, Been, Rough, Hoping

If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Resume, Human Being, Very, Played

I don't think that I'm as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke's body on my head, that would be just great.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Think, Big, Like, Transplant

There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Luck, Lot, Having, Foreign

Jon Hamm - I know him. I love him.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Know, I Love, Jon

Miami is not optimal for raising a child.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Child, Raising, Optimal, Miami

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Door, Out, Firmly, Foot

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Design, Doing, Graphic, Background

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

More, Profession, Than, Takes

I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Problem, Always, Had, Showing

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Celebrity, Other, Aspect

I feel like every day I'm exceedingly lucky.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Every Day, Lucky, Like, Exceedingly

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Kind, More, Been, Long Time

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Business, Been, Kicking, Long Time

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Rain, Want, Shooting, All Day

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Work, World, Television, Directors

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Think, I Think, Privilege

I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Star, I Love, Bag

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Loved, Knew, Very, Immediately

There's that rule, don't work with kids and animals. There's a reason for that!

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Work, Reason, Rule, Animals

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Game, Blind, Shot

I think the challenge for me in this role is going to be, is there any heart in Negan? For me, I look at that as a challenge as an actor, and that's the kind of thing that I embrace and really look forward to.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Think, Role, I Think, Embrace

I love the challenge of having an audience know what you're thinking without having to tell the audience what you're thinking.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love, Audience, I Love, Challenge

I am a family man at heart.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Man, I Am, Am, Family Man

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Respect, Lot, Profession

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