Philip Baker Hall Quotes

Philip Baker Hall — American Actor born on September 10, 1931,

Philip Baker Hall is an American actor. Although he is rarely cast in lead roles, Hall has portrayed characters such as President Richard Nixon in Robert Altman's Secret Honor, Sydney in Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight, and Arthur Pratt in Duck. He is also known for his portrayal of Lieutenant Bookman, Library Cop on Seinfeld. Many critics lauded him for his ancillary role as 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt, opposite Christopher Plummer and Al Pacino, in the 1999 drama The Insider... (wikipedia)

Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody.

'Good Times' was with a live audience, three camera, and that was really intimidating. Because there were people on both sides, moving from set to set, and it was pretty scary. As I say, I didn't have a foundation in Hollywood. I hardly knew anybody. Just at the social level. I felt pretty isolated here, I really did.

'Mariah' was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of 'Secret Honor.' That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And... I was the casting director's first choice for James Malone.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.

Philip Baker Hall Quotes

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