Top 19 Rick Hoffman Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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?’

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

I do not like mud baths at all.

I would love to visit India.

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