Quotes by Michael Rooker - Page 1

Groot is an awesome character.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Character
Awesome
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Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!
Michael Rooker / Actor
Belts
Black
Don't Mess With Me
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I've always wanted to play a teacher.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Teacher
Play
Wanted
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'Animal' was my nickname in high school.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Animal
High School
School
School High School High
Nickname
High
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'Night of the Living Dead' is one of my favorites.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Favorites
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I hope there are 10 sequels to the 'Guardians' movie!
Michael Rooker / Actor
Sequels
Guardians
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I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Apocalypse
Needs
Survived
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I am such a great gamer that seven-year-olds kick my butt.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Gamer
Butt
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I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Approach
Roles
Unsavory
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It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Actors
Strange
World
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I would have loved to have been on 'The Walking Dead' longer, but it didn't happen.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Walking Dead
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I was ecstatic when 'The Walking Dead' came along. Merle Dixon was so perfectly adapted for me.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Adapted
Ecstatic
Walking Dead
Me Dead Walking
Perfectly
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I dig those kinds of roles where I have to dig down and find some internal motivation. I like tough roles.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Dig
Internal
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I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Extremes
Passionate
Absolute
Done People Who
Points
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As a kid, I saw a lot of scary movies, but they were mixed with comedy, like 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.'
Michael Rooker / Actor
Scary
Costello
Frankenstein
Mixed
Scary Movies
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You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Film
Remember
Roles
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Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Fans
Littles
Needs
Okay
Throat
Worms
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I like horror and sci-fi almost equally, but I watch more sci-fi than horror. Does that mean I like sci-fi more than horror? Maybe.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Sci Fi
Equally
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Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.
Michael Rooker / Actor
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If you got a stuntman that can do it better than me, go do it. But if they can't do it better than me, I'm doing it myself - plain and simple.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Myself Me Simple
Plain
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When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Done
Horror
Thinking
Good Ones
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Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Directors
Gun
Hands
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I swear I am the worst gamer. I try, I try, and I try, but for some reason, you know, it - yeah. I got - everybody beats me. Let's just put it that way.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Beats
Gamer
Swear
I Am Me Way
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I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.
Michael Rooker / Actor
People
Roles
Thinking
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As the actor, you can't be worried about the scene that you're going to playing two days from now. You think about what's going on right now and in the moment. That's what you worry about.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Worried
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'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Vacation
Feet
Mountain
Seven Months
Life Best Great
Italy
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If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Character
Mad
Skin Tone
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Before 'The Walking Dead,' a few of the jobs before that were just like, 'Ugh.' I try and make everything as creative as possible, even when I get the script and can't imagine what I'm going to do with it.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Walking Dead
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Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Actors
Done
Working Together
Work Movies Done
Buddies
Work Together
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I'm a very jovial guy. I like to laugh, and when things strike me as funny, I don't hide the fact that it's humorous to me. It almost doesn't matter where I'm at: I will burst out and laugh if it's funny to me.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Humorous
Funny Me Laugh
Funny Where Me
Burst
Hide
Strike
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I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Home
Actors
Speak
Go Home
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Actors basically do their thing on the set, and then you put all the pieces together, switch them around, and maybe put them a different way that looks better. We just give him everything he needs, and then he goes in and does his thing.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Doe
Giving
Together
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I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Cake
Chicago
Drama
Goodman
Icing
Makeup
School
Everything Else
Internal
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The cosplayers are very fun. The kids are the best. Everyone is a kid at a comic con. There are some amazing stuff that goes on at these cons. The people have a blast. It's so neat to see the fans lining up to see you and talk with you. And asking you questions.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Blast
Neat
Best Amazing People
Con
Cons
Lining
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With 'Guardians,' I knew way from the start what the plan was on this one. The harder thing for some actors is when you are doing a TV show like 'The Walking Dead' because you find out you're character is going to die a week before or even just a couple of days before.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Couple
Harder
Walking Dead
Die
Tv
Dead
Guardians
Plan
Tv Show
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That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship between him and Quill, and how they ended up living together, for the last 18 or 19 years, without killing one another. He's a strong young man, and it's because of Yondu.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Men
Strong
Years
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I did 'Slither,' so I've done seven hours in the makeup chair. So two hours for zombie makeup is like nothing. That's a walk in the park for me. When you do seven-hour makeup and then eight hours of work, you're thinking, 'Oh God, what did this do to me?' You're under that rubber forever. It's crazy.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Rubber
Zombie
God Work Thinking
Chair
Oh God
Park
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'The Walking Dead' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy' have pumped up the recognition factor a thousand times. I can't get off an airplane anymore. I don't know how the hell they know and how these people find out. They must have some interesting, secret way of getting a hold of the flight manifesto or something.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Airplane
Flight
Galaxy
Recognition
Secret
Thousand
Walking Dead
Anymore
Dead
Factor
Hold
Guardians
Manifesto
Pumped
Thousand Times
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As the actor, you can't be worried about the scene that you're going to playing two days from now. You think about what's going on, right now and in the moment. That's what you worry about. Everything is right then and there. In the end, all of the pieces come together, thanks to the editing and James Gunn.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Editing
Thinking
Two
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We had a thing there where you could turn in - it was some sort of recycling program - the bottle caps of RC Cola. You'd turn in 12 of them, and you'd get a ticket to see a movie. That's how I started going to the movies. Running around the neighborhood looking for bottle caps. We were like little scavengers.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Caps
Neighborhood
Recycling
Bottle
Ticket
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You forget about it, after awhile. You forget that you even have it on. It becomes part of you. You get used to it, even the teeth and the contacts, which bothered the hell out of me. It ends up being something that is part of the role, and part of the thing that you're doing. After awhile, it just feels pretty damn awesome.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Forget
Roles
Teeth
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I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Casting
Character
Problem
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Yeah, my role is gonna be a character by the name of Yondu. And there's gonna be more of Yondu. Yondu is gonna be even more handsome. Perhaps maybe Yondu will add some more bling to his teeth and wear some more jewelry. I don't know. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I've got my fingers crossed that we'll flush out the character even more.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Character
Fun
Names
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There's always room. That's what the directors usually want. They want the performer to bring themselves and give what they have to give for the role. The smart ones allow that to happen because then it becomes even more organic within the performer's imagination. It becomes even more real. It's not always a given in other films, but when Gunn works, and we all work together in a collaborative way like that, it becomes a given that you bring it. It becomes a lot of fun.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Fun
Real
Smart
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Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't plan it out that way. I just happened to be free, and the director, Dan Pritzker, decided to do his film again. I say again because we did it seven years ago. A lot of the actors were not available, so he just couldn't wait anymore and he recast everything. Me and two other characters are the only people involved with the new one, who were involved with the previous one.
Michael Rooker / Actor
Character
Seven Years
Thinking
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