"I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up."

Father, Dad, Challenge, Play, Want

19

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up."

Exlpore more Father quotes

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Father, Nothing

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Father, Luck

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad."

James Levine, American Musician

Father, Dad, Home, Mom, Negotiation

"I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'"

Emo Philips, American Comedian

Father, Girlfriend

"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."

Glenn Frey, American Musician

Father, Dad, Living

"As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it."

Taryn Manning, American Actress

Father, Dad, Sister, Brother, Growing up

"My father was an agnostic."

Jerry Falwell, American Clergyman

Father,

"My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey."

Jim Fowler, American Scientist

Father,

"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."

Maya Lin, American Architect

Father, Draft, First

"Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another."

Soundarya, Indian Actress

Father, Dad, Science, College, Medicine

Explore more quotes by William Petersen

"The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking."

Drink

"One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility."

Love

"Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles."

Corporate

"If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor."

Change

"Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity."

Life

"I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either."

Life

"Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone."

Work

"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."

Years

"Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else."

People

"I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job."

Business