Zitat des Tages von Gary Sinise:
Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.
I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
I study to learn, to be an educated person.
I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
