Tony Goldwyn Quotes

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

– Tony Goldwyn

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.

– Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you’d come up with something exponentially better.

– Tony Goldwyn

Nothing’s wrong with honest emotion.

– Tony Goldwyn

I’ve been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

– Tony Goldwyn

I want to keep doing different things. I’d like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it’s about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that’s what’s important.

– Tony Goldwyn

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

– Tony Goldwyn

I don’t get over the wonder of it, and ‘The Last Samurai’ was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

– Tony Goldwyn

Life is a very emotional experience.

– Tony Goldwyn

I don’t want to do an action movie, because I’ve acted in them, and they’re so boring to do, because they’re so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

– Tony Goldwyn

If you’re playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.

– Tony Goldwyn

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn’t matter: anything can be fixed. When you’re directing, you can agonize, but you can’t indulge. Stuff has to happen.

– Tony Goldwyn

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don’t have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant’s knee or something like that.

– Tony Goldwyn

We want to live in the black and white, but we don’t. The world is gray. And, I’m always fascinated by people who are clearly, ‘This is black and this is white, and that’s the way life is.’ Life always has something to say about that.

– Tony Goldwyn