Skeet Ulrich

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

I think you have to refill the well at some point.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

I get to play a killer next.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.