#co

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles. ↗

— William Petersen

#corporate #geek #gibson #go #hollywood

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem. ↗

— William Petersen

#back #being #bugs #comes #comfortable

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. ↗

— William Petersen

#could #dad #doctor #dry #felt

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years. ↗

— William Petersen

#chicago #damned #growing #growing up #i

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. ↗

— Mark Tobey

#billboards #critic #decided #i #like

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either. ↗

— William Petersen

#complete #either #end #grissom #him

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall. ↗

— William Petersen

#another #anybody #bad #bad guys #been

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#believe #encounters #history #i #only

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job. ↗

— William Petersen

#been #business #decent #good #good work

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people. ↗

— William Petersen

#ago #ball player #been #career #could