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Vote: | Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. |
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Vote: | I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. |
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Vote: | I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years. |
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Vote: | I'd lulled myself into the insularity of competence. I'd forgotten that, to do good work as an actor, you have to keep alive that part of yourself that's rebellious, that's an outlaw, that's... that's stark, raving crazy. |
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Vote: | I'm sure as hell glad all this movie stuff happened when I was thirty-two, when I'd had all those years at Remains to build a viable perspective. If it'd happened to me when I was twenty-three, I would have been one helluva mess. I'd hate to be Rob Lowe. Poor bastard. |
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Vote: | If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people. |
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Vote: | Maybe they know my name, maybe they don't, but we're going to get that damned play on, even if I have to hit a liquor store. |
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Vote: | Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity. |
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Vote: | On CBS, as long as I stay younger than Mike Wallace and Dan Rather, I'm OK. |
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Vote: | One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility. |
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Vote: | Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. |
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Vote: | Thomas McGuane's characters are always a little quirky, but they're so rich, so expressive. There isn't an actor around who wouldn't kill to play one of them. |
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Vote: | We're getting to the age when we're starting to see that responsibility isn't such a bad thing, when we see maturity as the key to sustenance. |
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Vote: | X-Files operated off of 'What if?' Are UFOs out there? Who knows? It's completely nebulous. But our show is about reality. Forget Survivor. CSI is the real reality show. |
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William Petersen is an American actor born on February 21, 1953, in Evanston, Illinois.
After attending Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho, Peterson attended Idaho State University on a football scholarship. Later, moving back to Chicago, he became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
His film career began with a small part in the 1981 film Thief, and in 1986 he starred as Will Graham in Manhunter (later to be remade as Red Dragon). In a move perhaps indicative of his career choices, Petersen is alleged to have passed on a part in Oliver Stone's Platoon, as it would have kept him away from his family. Instead, he worked on the 1987 made for TV movie Long Gone. In the 2000 release The Contender, Petersen played the role of Governor Jack Hathway, a candidate for Vice President following the death of the incumbent.
From 2000 to the present, Petersen has starred as Gil Grissom in the successful CBS crime drama ''''.
Petersen, who has one child from a previous marriage, married longtime girlfriend Gina Cirone in June of 2003.
External link *
*Bishop Kelly High School official site
*Steppenwolf Theatre Company official site
...(more on Wikipedia)
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "William Petersen".
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