Robert Patrick Quotes

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.

Aaron Sorkin has been incredibly good to me; I don't know that I would have an acting career without him. Thanks to him, people think I'm smart and nice, but I'm neither.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

I'm quite happy with the body of work that I've done, and I've done some really good work over the years that I'm proud of. I'm proud of some of the people that I've worked with, been lucky to have worked with.

At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.

When the comedy community turned on me, I had a lot of reflecting to do.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

I'm proud of what I have accomplished so far in my career, but the finish line is nowhere in sight. Still, it's fun to look back before we move forward.

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer," "Waiter," or "Guy #1."

When I look back on my work, I'm proud of what I've done.