Quotes By Skeet Ulrich

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.

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

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.

I think you have to refill the well at some point.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

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.

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

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

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.

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

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

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.

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

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

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

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

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

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

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

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