I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy. John Larroquette More Quotes by John Larroquette More Quotes From John Larroquette Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character. John Larroquette acting essence character I love working with Gary Sinise. John Larroquette gary I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do. John Larroquette french-quarter rats people The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday, and there's not a nick, not a blur, there's not any fading on the jacket at all, because they were taken and protected. A limited edition, by nature, is limited, and also probably more protected because of that. I'd rather have a first trade edition than a special one of 25 that was made years later, even if it's signed by the author. The trade edition is the Holy Grail. John Larroquette taken yesterday years Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller, people like Charles Bukowski and John Fante and David Foster Wallace. John Larroquette biographies people years It's amazing being a member of perhaps the last analog generation - being born in the late '40s, growing up in the '50s and '60s, when it was still a very analog world. And in New Orleans those days, the country was just next door, as it were. You didn't have to travel miles and miles to get out in the woods. There's tons of fishing, obviously, in New Orleans, and tons of hunting. That was part of the cycle of life, to get fresh meat from the butcher or go duck hunting and get it yourself. It wasn't malicious or insensitive. It was just there, and you used it. John Larroquette hunting growing-up country I certainly don't take life lightly. To respect the product that you're using, I think, is very important. I think it does connect you a little bit more. John Larroquette important littles thinking Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of just Samuel Beckett. By him, about him, in different languages, etc. etc. Notebooks of his, letters of his that I own, personal letters - not to me, but I bought a bunch of correspondence of his. I love his humor, and I'm always blown away by his syntax and his ideas. So I keep reading those. John Larroquette notebook reading ideas Write more. That's the advice I would give myself. John Larroquette writing advice giving I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing. John Larroquette havens writing long I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please." John Larroquette teenager writing jobs I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing. John Larroquette celebrate bigs wise
