Jason Patric Quotes


"It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Help, Vocabulary)

"It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes."
- Jason Patric
"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Hollywood)

"Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies, Being, Now, Vanity)

"Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Day, Hollywood, Training)

"When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Actors, Research, Talk)

"When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Actors)

"You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie."
- Jason Patric
(Related: People, Passion, Will)

"I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies, Worth)

"I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies)

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies, Office)

"I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies, Want)

"I try to stay under the radar."
- Jason Patric
"Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies)

"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
- Jason Patric
(Related: American, Horror)

"I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies, Character)

"I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies, Thought)

"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Money)

"I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Movies)

"I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Time, Projects)

"I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Business, Being, Celebrity)

"I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director."
- Jason Patric
(Related: People, Actor, Press)

"I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Business, Successful, Fame)

"If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Business, Today)