Top 22 Aaron Stanford Quotes

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

Bruce Dern was fascinating. He’s an amazing character. If you put him in a room at a table, you will sit there for the next five days and listen to everything he has to say and be fascinated by it. He’s great.

I read a lot of war literature.

I’m not your traditional action hero.

It’s nice to know when you’re a part of a story, it’s nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she’s also a very, very accomplished stage actress.

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I’m not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can’t come back.

Of course, I’m not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I do know that I’ve read somewhere that it’s been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don’t know why that is. You’d think it’d be the opposite. You’d think people would want to escape from it.

I like ‘The Lord of The Rings‘ and ninja swords.

I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that’s for sure.

That’s just part of being in ‘X-Men.’ There’s, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you’re happy for anything you can get.

Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it’s TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don’t know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

Almost all of my favorite shows are limited series. It just seems to be the better way to go.

I worshiped Judd Nelson in ‘The Breakfast Club‘ growing up. I must‘ve seen that movie 100 times.

I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I’m saying?

The show is ’12 Monkeys,’ and I’m playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film ’12 Monkeys.’ It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.

People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

It’s fun playing villains. It’s people who are not held by any moral constraints – or any constraints, for that matter. It’s a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life.

I’m sure some of the characters in ‘X-Men’ had a lot of physically demanding stuff to do, but my character’s pretty much stand-and-deliver, stand there and throw fire at people. There’s no acrobatics or anything.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

As a fan, when I hear that a film is going to be turned into a television show, I do go to that place immediately of, ‘Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be a waste of time? Why are they doing it?’ It’s ’12 Monkeys,’ and ’12 Monkeys’ is awesome, so I wanted to be a part of it and work on it.