Lee Pace Quotes

When I was a kid, I played ‘Super Mario Bros’ and ‘Megaman 2’ and ‘3’ for hours and hours, trying to convince my mother they were good for me because they helped my hand-eye coordination. They influenced a whole generation of people to make computers what they are now, through problem-solving and so on.

It’s kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I don’t really get recognized.

I’ve dated men. I’ve dated women. I don’t know why anyone would care.

It’s totally fun to play troublemakers – totally.

I’d forgotten it’s an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!

What I enjoy most about ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is that extended cut. To be able to sit there on a Sunday afternoon and watch ‘The Lord of the Rings’ from beginning to end is pretty fun.

I am a huge Michael Jackson fan.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you’re filming just to get something real to play on screen.

‘ Daisies’ is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It’s kind of morbid, you know. But there’s a love to it. There’s a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it – I don’t know; it’s a good thing to put out there in the world, so I’m glad people responded.

The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it’s been through no design of my own.

It is a total treat to get to work with James Cromwell.

It’s the writers’ job to make it positive. It’s my job to make it real.

I think Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens have very carefully plotted ‘The Hobbit’ out so that it does feel like the starting point for ‘The Lord of the Rings.’

With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don’t really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I’m going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

I had a fantastic time working on ‘Twilight.’ I loved our director Bill Condon. He was an absolute pleasure to work with.

I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that’s where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.

‘Kill Bill’ is one of my favorite movies of all time.

It’s one of the things I love about my job: it’s my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in ‘Soldier’s Girl.’

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I’m kind of clumsy.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

The roles I think about and can’t stop thinking about – on the subway, when I’m riding my bike, when I’m running – are the things I connect to.