Donal Logue Quotations

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.

Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

I think I was able to ride on a good wave of not seeming too desperate. There's a confidence in there that's actually rare for me.

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.

I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written.

There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.

I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child.

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.

It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.

I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

I've been lucky enough to go back and forth.

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kidbut stay focused.

As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.

I've always managed to hustle; since the show ended, I did probably ten movies. I always feel like I can stay busy and do stuff.

There were a lot of reasons I chose Grounded for Life - my family was close by and I didn't have to travel, and I loved the cast so much.