Alan Moore’s first choice to be the Comedian… was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I was a huge fan of the original Red Dawn. America and brothers, you can’t beat that in my world. I think there’s nothing greater. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I just didn’t want to get bored playing a character, and that’s kind of the benefit of doing films; you’ve lived with a character for four or five months and that’s it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what’s going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I’m aware of. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
It’s just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I’ve been there. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I’ll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I’ve done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I haven’t watched a lot of episodes of ‘The Good Wife.’ I never even saw the show until I signed on, and then I watched seven episodes. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I’m just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
The last decade has been a little rough, so I’m hoping to start this one on the right foot. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
If it’s football season, all things sort of stop. I’m from Seattle, so I’ll watch the Seahawks and whatever other game that day is worthy. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you’re doing these 23-episode years. It’s a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I’m not trying to be an action star, and I’m not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Within a five-month period, I got ‘Weeds,’ ‘Supernatural,’ and ‘Grey’s.’ I think a lot of it had to do with luck. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
