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Gary Cole Biography

Gary Michael Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American actor and voice actor. Cole began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. On television, he has had starring roles in the series Midnight Caller, American Gothic, Crusade, and Veep. In film, Cole has appeared in The Brady Bunch Movie, One Hour Photo, Office Space, Dodgeball, and Talladega Nights. Cole is also known for voicing the title character of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, and was the voice of Dr. James Timothy Possible on Kim Possible.

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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Apocalypse, Fear, Grew, Real, Thing

I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

Camera, Character, Exercise, Historical, Making

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

Bad, Difficult, Sets, Think, Thinking

What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.

Looked, Military, Place, Stuff, Thinking, War

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Actors, Big, Levels, Roulette, Television

There is many different paths of a career. I bounce around and do a lot of different things. It suited me that hopefully I am prepared to do different kinds of styles, genres, or whatever you want to call it.

Different, Kinds, Path, Paths, Style, Suited

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

Cameras, Front, Long, Malden, Mentor

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

Thinking, Listening To Others, People, Like, Easy, Scenes

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

Character, Comfortable, Nice, Thinking

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

Make, Movie, People, Things

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

Bedroom, Drummer, Electronic, Set, Sitting

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

Certain, Firsts, Place, Television, Want, Written

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

Decision, Easier, Easy, Make

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

Initially, Leading, Man, Men, Television

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

Chicago, Cities, Everything, February, January, Missing

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Concerts, Environment, Intrigue, Intrigues, Whole

Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Like, say, you're walking down a hall and you just don't have enough dialogue, and you throw in something. But you don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed.

Enough, Long, Occasional, Scene, Television

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget. . . I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

Budgets, Directed, Filmmaking, Movie, Taste

Clint Eastwood is a very soft-spoken, humble guy, actually, which helped put somebody like me at ease, who had never worked with somebody as huge as that. I'm sure that's not always the case with legendary people.

Clint, Guy, Humble, Legendary, People

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Career, Careers, Handbook

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