Quotes

Lee Pace

"I'm a pretty gentle person so I don't really have much of a thing of being a badass."

"I'm also a big reader so I find my inspiration in books. There's nothing like the private conversation you have with an author while reading a book. It takes a lot of meditation to understand why people do what they to, what the point of life is, the mistakes that people make."

"I find that the best way into things is to open my heart up to it and allow it to be as truthful and honest as I can be, and I can make it. It's hard to do that; it's hard to open yourself up to something."

"I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life."

"What I enjoy most about 'The Lord of the Rings' is that extended cut. To be able to sit there on a Sunday afternoon and watch 'The Lord of the Rings' from beginning to the end is pretty fun."

"The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways it's been through no design of my own."

"It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help."

"I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen."

"I have dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything. Not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money."

"It's important to complete things and finish what you started."

"It's not my business to think about the business; it's my business to think about the character. Sure, there have been times in my career where I wished I was more popular or more this or more that, but that's just stupid."

"With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some."

"I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway."

"I connect to the character and try to find a way for other people to connect to the character and bring it to life."

"I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually."

"It's the writer's job to create the story, it's my job to make it real".

"The dangerous thing about dreams; you begin to believe they might come true."

"I'm a huge Michael Jackson fan." 

"I've played a lot of bad characters in my life, not bad, but kind of rough, complicated characters. And Ned is such an adorable, sweet guy that I think people think that's who I am. I'm not unlike Ned, I'm pretty shy and kind of reclusive, but not as much as Ned."