Finn Wittrock Quotes

I’m a klutz, through and through.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it’s, ‘Oh yeah, that’s a music school. What do you play?’

I’m usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they’ve aired. But I love ‘House of Cards,’ ‘The Killing,’ ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ loved ‘True Detective,’ and ‘Arrested Development’ when it was on. Also ‘The Wire,’ though I was way late to the game on that.

I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We’re not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there’s something about him we’re really fascinated by.

I was playing a defensive guard in ‘My All American’ who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn’t too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

At first, before you meet her, you’re like, ‘I’m gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I’m talking to Angelina Jolie!’ And then, within a matter of five minutes, you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m just talking to my director,’ and it’s just back to work. She really is all about the work. She’s so surprisingly down-to-earth.

Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that’s a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think ‘Freak Show’ has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we’ll go for our own amusement.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn’t exist there.

In film, you’re so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it’s good to watch it just to see how it turns out – it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it’s better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

I caught the acting bug from my dad.

I’ve learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I’ve been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.

Writing is something I’ve always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from ‘Unbroken’ is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.

I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.