Quote: I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: This Is My Father. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: To get to do something as rich as this story and this part, with my two brothers and my sister -- you know, there was nothing like it. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: Paul sometimes would be a little bit annoying to me, because I'd be behind the camera on a scene I wasn't in, looking at the clock and going, 'Come on, we've got to move on. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: Paul would be laughing with extras and saying, 'Yes, and then we could do that,' and, 'Let's try this,' and I'm like, 'OK, but we've got to go!' [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: It's a kind of star-crossed 'Romeo and Juliet'-type love story, where these two were desperately in love with each other, but everyone around them doesn't want them to be together. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: To work with the best material that is offered to me at a time when I need to work, and with the best people. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I want to do a lot more roles like I did in 'This Is My Father. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I never did acting in high school, ... I walked into acting class one day because they had signs for auditions. I looked around at the people and thought, 'I don't like any of these people.' And I turned around and walked out. But then again, I was kind of a loner in high school. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: That was a nice benefit, to have a real bit of social good come out of doing the film. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: When I read the script, I just started pacing back and forth, laughing. I thought, 'I could see myself doing this.' And it's set in New York? That's it. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: It seemed to be able to mine the craziness of everyday living in this busy world. I loved the way it flip-flopped from almost farce-like comedy to something very sweet and serious. It made me laugh. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: He is caught up in the modern malady of extreme busyness and stress. But he can have moments of great lucidity and humor, and he cherishes his moments of quiet in the church, and in prayer. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: It can flip on a dime from being almost farce-like to being quite serious and then back. That's what a lot of us like. I would say it's a comedy more than a drama. But then there are some episodes that are coming up that are straight drama. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I think that kind of hangs over the family [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: Well, I'm an Episcopalian priest who struggles with a little self-medication problem, and I have a 23-year-old son who's gay, and a 16-year-old daughter who's caught dealing pot. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: He's very much a product of the times. I think his spiritual journey is rocky but strong. I think he allows himself to question what's going on. But I think he has a deep and abiding faith. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I think it's a pretty down-the-middle, wholesome show. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: It's a family drama dealing with these people and about their lives. Talking to Jesus, it's really kind of what Daniel's imagination of what talking to Jesus really would be like, and it's fraught with all of Daniel's limitations. . . . It's literally the internal dialogue of Daniel. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it. [Aidan Quinn]
Quote: I've spent a lot of time with Steve, from Northern Ireland, to Sarajevo, to Utah, but probably most memorably, to our annual New Year's pilgrimages to our house in High Falls, where we have what we call in Ireland 'a bit of a piss-up' for three days, ... I know it's probably the time that I'm supposed to tell a funny story or two about Steve ... because he's such a funny man, but they're private. You're not going to get them. [Aidan Quinn]