Skeet Ulrich Quotes

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

- Skeet Ulrich

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

- Skeet Ulrich

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

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Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

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The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

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As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

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In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

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As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

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I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

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There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

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My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

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I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

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There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

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I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

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What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

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The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

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Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

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Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

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I get to play a killer next.

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I had gone to school to study marine biology.

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I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

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I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

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I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

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Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

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Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

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I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

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I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

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The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

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I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

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I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

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People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

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Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

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