Rick Hoffman Quotes

There’s so many more failures than successes for actors. It’s like a phobia, fear of cancellation.

I am deathly allergic to cats. I mean, I love all animals, but they’re not my animal of choice.

My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they’re hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.

As actors, for the most part, there’s that neuroses most of us possess where, in a day of watching, this character get killed off of this show, and that character get killed off of that show – one never knows.

It is such a special place to be when people all over the world enjoy the TV show that you are in.

I am not a cat lover. I am a dog lover – but I’m only a lover of hypoallergenic dogs.

I had been on four other series that never lasted more than a year and a half. I’d done fine, so you start to wonder, ‘Will I ever be one of those lucky actors who get to be part of something lasting?’

Before the Netflixs and the Amazons and the Hulus, there was nothing. TV came to a standstill. Movie actors were taking TV parts, and it was just nuts.

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake.

No matter what set she’s been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called ‘Philly’ trying to take a picture – she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.

You just want to get it right so badly, so it’s stressful when it comes to those vulnerable, dramatic scenes.

I’m starting to believe it when someone tells me ‘Suits’ is popular in another country. We’re just acting, but we are reaching so many different kinds of people all over the world.

‘Breaking Bad’ is one of my favorite shows of all time.

There are no shortcuts, and you can’t wing your way through real hard work. I learned the hard way by not taking auditions seriously when I first came out to L.A. and probably wasted a good seven years.

At first I’m sort of answering everything the way you’re ‘supposed to’ answer, and I lost a bunch of followers… I was like, ‘What the hell is this all about? What is Twitter supposed to be about? If you’re not answering your fans, then what’s the point?’

My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we’re out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.

I can always tell if someone is good in the core.

I’ve always said that it’s like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets – getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts. There are no guarantees, and no one knows where a show is going to go.

I can’t learn lines comfortably unless I have it done out loud with someone else.

Don’t get me wrong: I’ve worked, over the course of 14 years, with certain actors that are really just not nice as people, so you don’t really care what happens to their show. But someone like Rachael Harris, you hope that woman wins an Emmy.

As for what rejuvenates me – deep tissue massages. I am addicted to massages.

I’m learning to not worry too much about the future, and it’s hard, but I’m doing it.

I would love to visit India.

If somebody does something wrong to someone around me, I can be firm. But that’s always to protect someone to whom wrong is being done to.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is just to not doubt myself as much as I do. Having self-doubt is definitely necessary, but it’s about not letting it get in the way. When it turns into fear, you run into problems.