So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever. Michael Emerson More Quotes by Michael Emerson More Quotes From Michael Emerson It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites. Michael Emerson african-american may sometimes Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific. Michael Emerson middle two years Putin is a geopolitical master-tactician. Whether one likes it or not - and I don't - 'Putinpolitik' is doing pretty well. Michael Emerson world I like the things every actor likes - I like great, intense duet scenes with good actors. Michael Emerson things great good like Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry. Michael Emerson your never work funny One of the first roles I every played, I was Grandpa Vanderhoff in 'You Can't Take It With You.' Walked with a cane, white stuff in my hair. It must have been horrible. Thank God there's no videotape of it. Michael Emerson you thank-god god hair I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead. Michael Emerson city new new-york life The 'Lost' style book is really quite set. We do things like, we walk through the jungle, and we stop and turn and talk to each other. We never talk and walk. We always stop to talk. Michael Emerson walk never style book Jack Bender is a real actor's director. Because he was an actor, and because he directed theater, he really enjoys that process. Michael Emerson actor director real process Anything that has to do with air travel and air tragedy is of interest to me. Michael Emerson anything me tragedy travel In a way, 'Lost,' or maybe TV in general, is a kind of a contract between the writers and the viewers. And the actors - of course we have a great deal to do with it - but where the drama's made, sort of where the meeting of minds is, is between those two parties: writers and audience. Michael Emerson meeting great lost way I have had some good fortune in the world of television. I have had it late in life after many youthful struggles and a change of careers. Michael Emerson good change life world I'm truly glad there are so many options on television that are for grown and thinking people. Michael Emerson options people television thinking 'Elementary' is a strong show; we watch it almost religiously in our house. Michael Emerson show watch strong house I'd really like to play a character who's inarticulate. I always play people with language. It would be good to play a mute or a fool or a saint. Michael Emerson good fool character people I liked dark, urban stories like 'Peter Gunn,' which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy. I grew up in a farmtown in the Midwest where not much exciting happened. I liked the idea of lives lived at night and the shadowy characters who lived in that demi-monde. Michael Emerson boy like dark night I'm very proud of my New York debut. I played Oscar Wilde in 'Gross Indecency' off Broadway in about 1997. And I was very proud of my Broadway debut in 'The Iceman Cometh.' Michael Emerson about new proud new-york I used to make training films for the U.S. government. I was always cast as a madman or a prisoner. I once played a prisoner who was holding himself hostage with a razor blade. Michael Emerson make always training government This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we're desperate, if we feel like we're beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we're tradesmen. Michael Emerson feel better job sometimes I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those wasted years!' But now I think it's just been one big enterprise of illustrating. I used to do it with colored pencils, and now I do it with this voice and this set of limbs. Michael Emerson big think voice god
