Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise
Gary Alan Siniseis an American actor, director and musician. Among other awards, he has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 March 1955
CityBlue Island, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.
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I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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He's blasting away, rocking out. Something happens backstage just outside the theater, and of course we find a dead body out there, so we've got to start investigating.
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Well, you're not incorrect on either front, because absolutely, there are children here in this country that need help as are everywhere in the world.
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Mice And Men was only the third movie I had acted in and since then I've done more television and bigger, more demanding roles.
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Whether I ever meet these kids or not, it doesn't matter, ... I know that we're doing something that's positive.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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It would be an incredible blessing if we could transform one of the worst events in our history into a day where all Americans come together to volunteer their time in honor of those lost and injured.
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These soldiers over there and these Marines are very special people, ... They care about these people.