I'm a trained actor and I can always tone it down, I can always simplify the work I've done. But if I'm asked to bring the nuanced and complicated work, I'll have it in my pocket, and all that information helps.

Patrick Heusinger

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The guy [Tom Cruise] is a machine. by Patrick Heusinger

The guy [Tom Cruise] is a machine.

Patrick Heusinger

cruise machines guy

[ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last... by Patrick Heusinger

[ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last to leave.

Patrick Heusinger

lasts kind firsts

I had heard that Tom [Cruise] was the same way, that he is incredibly dedicated. I was very excited to meet him and I was, honest to God, weirdly surprised that the guy makes me look lazy. I think he does think I'm a hard worker, but he makes me look like I'm doing nothing. The guy is at the gym before anybody in the morning.

Patrick Heusinger

hard-work morning thinking

I want to make sure everything has my 100%. by Patrick Heusinger

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

Patrick Heusinger

want

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

Patrick Heusinger

stories people thinking

The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there and I walked out at the end of the play, which is a very intense play - my character is required to do some really horrible things - and the director was waiting backstage and he goes, "Obviously I didn't want to tell you guys, but Ian was here today" and we, of course, freaked out.Ian McKellen said some really beautiful, kind things, one of which was, "It's so much harder to watch than it is to do."

Patrick Heusinger

play beautiful character

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

Patrick Heusinger

roles two way

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

Patrick Heusinger

charming skills mean

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

Patrick Heusinger

careers want jobs