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Patrick Heusinger (born February 14, 1981) is an American actor, known for his roles on the television series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, Gossip Girl, Royal Pains and Absentia.

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Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

Mean, Skills, Charming, Skill, Obsessive, Unskilled

You're working so hard and so many hours, you simply don't get to visit with everybody when you're gone for five months. That's part of the trade in we make with this career. You don't get to maintain the intimacy you would like to. One of the big things I was doing was working on reestablishing that.

Big, Careers, Gone, Like, Months, Working

When I came on to Jack Reacher, I had just taken my girlfriend on vacation and ate everything I could. I put on about 15 pounds, so when I met [the Jack Reacher team] I was clocking in at about 180. They looked at me and were like, "You're just gonna lose five pounds, we're gonna keep you skinny. "

Girlfriend, Reacher, Taken, Team

I'm a trained actor and I can always tone it down, I can always simplify the work I've done. But if I'm asked to bring the nuanced and complicated work, I'll have it in my pocket, and all that information helps.

Pockets, Actors, Done, Tone, Down, Helps

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

Career, Careers, Early, Jobs, Possibly, Want

I'm not a method actor but it certainly does help to have that kind of dedication. I treated my preparation like I was in the military. I didn't go out ever. I went out for drinks probably twice in five months. I lived very monastically.

Dedication, Lived, Military, Months, Preparation, Twice

Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of sociopaths that are CEOs. They don't necessarily kill people but they're able to walk into a big social function and make everybody think they're the kindest, coolest, smartest, most interesting person in the room.

Differences, People, Person, Sociopaths, Thinking

My character is called The Hunter. He's the main antagonist in the movie. In a nutshell, he's a slightly deranged natural born killer who's weirdly determined to succeed at his job, whatever his employment is. He's a mercenary and there's a high body count for him in this film [Never Go Back].

Character, Deranged, Determined To Succeed, Jobs, Nutshell

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

Book, Books, Happens, Psychology, Psychopath, Soldier

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

Mirrors, Guy, Looks, See, Mirror, Bad

The director, Moisés Kaufman, just received the national medal of the arts from President [Barack] Obama. He wrote and directed The Laramie Project and he has directed several Pulitzer prize-winning plays. He's a pretty profound director in the theater.

Art, Director, Kaufman, Moisés, Play, Winning

I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.

Guy, Roles, Shapes, Physical, Shape

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

Weight, Muscles, Casual, Schoolteacher, Let

I only had a three-week break from the beginning of Bent, so I went from one thing to the next. I got back [from shooting Jack Reacher] and there was a sense of, "Oh my God, what do I do now?" I don't have personal trainers around me all the time, I'm not on a meal plan, which I had been on for almost a year straight. There was a lot of sleeping.

Meal, Meals, Personal, Shooting, Sleep, Years

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

100, Everything, Make, Want

I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent and it was at the Mark Taper Forum. I was playing a homosexual in 1930 to 1934 Berlin who is eventually put into a concentration camp for the second half of the play. I had lost about 38 pounds for that.

Angeles, Bent, Eventually, Play, Pounds, Roles

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

Girlfriend, Hang, Parent, Room, Talking, Thing

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

Trying, Want, Tough, Ones, Loved

The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there and I walked out at the end of the play, which is a very intense play - my character is required to do some really horrible things - and the director was waiting backstage and he goes, "Obviously I didn't want to tell you guys, but Ian was here today" and we, of course, freaked out. Ian McKellen said some really beautiful, kind things, one of which was, "It's so much harder to watch than it is to do. "

1979, Beautiful, Came, Character, Guys, Play

[Jack Reacher] is the longest I'd ever shot anything - and let's be clear, this is my first studio feature film - so there was a huge learning curve.

Curves, Firsts, Film, Curve, Reacher, Clear

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