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Gary Sinise Quotes

You’ve got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it’s not in movie stardom.

– Gary Sinise

It’s always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

– Gary Sinise

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We’ve been very supportive of the veterans there.

– Gary Sinise

You learn from things that don’t go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

– Gary Sinise

But I’ve got more to learn, too. I don’t feel like I’m done or I know it all.

– Gary Sinise

My mission is to support our service members. They’re volunteers, and if they’re going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

– Gary Sinise

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.

– Gary Sinise

Well, I’ve been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

– Gary Sinise

I’m not like one of those actors who’s a frustrated director.

– Gary Sinise

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.

– Gary Sinise

I have veterans in my family. But I didn’t know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.

– Gary Sinise

Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

– Gary Sinise

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can’t help it.

– Gary Sinise

Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

– Gary Sinise

The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for ‘West Side Story.’ I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

– Gary Sinise

Sometimes you’re in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

– Gary Sinise

I save money when I’m working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

– Gary Sinise

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.

– Gary Sinise

I think you’re lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn’t something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn’t want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

– Gary Sinise

I was always fascinated with rock ‘n’ roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

– Gary Sinise

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

– Gary Sinise

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

– Gary Sinise

I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness… and it entertains.

– Gary Sinise

I’ve never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

– Gary Sinise

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.

– Gary Sinise

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.

– Gary Sinise