William Fichtner

Actor

31 Quotes

I've always loved hot rods and going to drag races.

If you can't get tax breaks, then there's no reason to film in a city or state.

When I get home, I clean out the garage and play ball with my son. That's it.

Kim Coates is my best friend. I met Coatsy in 2001 in Morocco while working on 'Black Hawk Down.'

The process of making an independent film is like building a mini Eiffel Tower with popsicle sticks - it doesn't happen overnight, and it's not easy.

I do play nice guys. I really do.

I had a '69 Road Runner when I was a kid. I had it for 13 days, came home one day, and my parents were in the driveway. They said, 'Meet the new owner,' because they'd gotten phone calls about me burning rubber for the last 12 days. They thought I'd wrap it around a tree, and it was too much car for a 16 year old.

I've never been the actor who did one job, and everyone went, 'Wow!'

If anybody ever points out to me I'm chewing scenery, I certainly like to stop doing that.

I'm a huge fan of actors, and I love when people find moments and a scene works. There's nothing more that I love than to go over to another actor and say, 'Yeah! You just rocked that one, baby!'

When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing. Now I like to really spend the time and figure it out, and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work.

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