Oliver Platt Quotes

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.

I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

I've done a handful of great roles.

I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.

The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

I wanted to be a part of the first 'Twilight' movie, and unfortunately, it didn't work out so great. So when they came back and were like, 'Do you want to come in for a part for the second movie,' I was like, 'Absolutely.'

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

It's pretty much a given known fact in the industry that before I was successful, I wrote for other artists.

I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.

I don't know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did 'Yaddein' after 'Mission Kashmir' in which I played a very positive character, but people don't remember that.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

I've played positive characters. But those films haven't been noticed.

I've been in the shadows my whole career.