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Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I’m serious! In ‘Bambi,’ the mother dies, but you don’t see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see ‘Bambi’ alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I’ll, like, die. So throughout my life I’ve always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I’ve been trained to do that.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don’t really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they’d be like, ‘Go get that guy Gubler. He’ll be in your student film.’ I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I’ve had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I’m just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I’m the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I never thought I’d be making a living off of acting – it’s still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I get really sad when people say, ‘I’m no good. I haven’t been cast in a pilot.’ It doesn’t mean you’re not good; it just means someone hasn’t seen you yet. It doesn’t mean that in real life you’re not the greatest actor.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I studied directing prior to acting and I’ve done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

A fantastic actor in a scene that’s just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks – correct music, slowly pushing in – that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I’ve always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I’ve always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you’re doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I looked like a ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Goomba. It’s arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I just love entertaining. I will do anything – stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts – I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I would love to be on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ I’d love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked ‘Twin Peaks.’ If I had a time machine I’d be in that.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

If you just do a Google search and type in ‘smoking’ or ‘lung cancer’, you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

It’d be cool to chipmunk-ize ‘The Virgin Suicides’ soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I look a little like Beaker. I think I’m a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It’s Muppety hair.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there’s more of a sense of control in it. You’re not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn’t be happier that people seem to like what I’m doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren’t there, I don’t know what I’d be doing right now.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

I’ve always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

– Matthew Gray Gubler