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Michael Emerson

I’ve never landed in a series that I could have dreamt in my life. That’s why, when people say, ‘Well what are roles you’re dying to play?’ I say, I don’t even have such a list, because everything that’s ever been great that I had a shot at came completely out of the blue. I could not have predicted it.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

It’s not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had – the rejection of an illustrator’s life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor’s life. So I was able to manage that. But all the while, I still nursed that old dream of being an actor.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

I’m the worst at a computer.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

I like the things every actor likes – I like great, intense duet scenes with good actors.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

I like shooting on location in New York City.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

As an actor, I’m not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn’t lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

There were times when I thought I had to be completely off-book and ready to give my opening night performance at the audition, but then I swung back to a more relaxed view of it. Certainly you’ve looked at the material and prepared it, but there’s no reason to be off-book. You’re not getting points for being off-book.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

I was 42 when I started to make my living as an actor.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we’re desperate, if we feel like we’re beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we’re tradesmen.

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

I’m very proud of my New York debut. I played Oscar Wilde in ‘Gross Indecency’ off Broadway in about 1997. And I was very proud of my Broadway debut in ‘The Iceman Cometh.’

– Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

I liked dark, urban stories like ‘Peter Gunn,’ which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy. I grew up in a farmtown in the Midwest where not much exciting happened. I liked the idea of lives lived at night and the shadowy characters who lived in that demi-monde.

– Michael Emerson

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