Dean Norris
Dean Norris
Dean Joseph Norrisis an American actor, best known for portraying DEA agent Hank Schrader on the AMC series Breaking Badand town councilman James "Big Jim" Rennie on the CBS series Under the Dome. He has appeared in films such as Lethal Weapon 2, Hard To Kill, Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starship Troopers, The Cell, Little Miss Sunshine, Evan Almighty, and Sons of Liberty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 April 1963
CitySouth Bend, IN
CountryUnited States of America
When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
If I have a day off I will play golf.
I think actors who take things too far are funny.
I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.
I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
I don't have a lot of downtime.
For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.
Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.
Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.
You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.
I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.
The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.
Well, I was a drama kid.
When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.