Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes:- Matthew Gray Gubler (born March 9, 1980) is an American actor, filmmaker, fashion model, painter, and author. He is best known for his role as criminal profiler Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds, of which he has also directed eleven episodes.
Inspirational Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes
“I love the holidays – any holiday – but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I never thought I’d be making a living off of acting – it’s still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I think I veered towards filmmaking because there’s more of a sense of control in it. You’re not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school, I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I’ve always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“A fantastic actor in a scene that’s just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks – correct music, slowly pushing in – that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I’ve always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
Famous Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes
“I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I’m serious! In ‘Bambi,’ the mother dies, but you don’t see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see ‘Bambi’ alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper in that world.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“It’d be cool to chipmunk-ize ‘The Virgin Suicides’ soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I’ll, like, die. So throughout my life, I’ve always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I’ve been trained to do that.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I would love to be on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ I’d love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked ‘Twin Peaks.’ If I had a time machine I’d be in that.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I’ve always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
Greatest Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes
“Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don’t really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they’d be like, ‘Go get that guy Gubler. He’ll be in your student film.’ I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I’ve had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I’m just so thankful for it. But at the same time, I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I’m the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you’re doing your best to entertain. The way these business works is all about luck and timing.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I get really sad when people say, ‘I’m no good. I haven’t been cast in a pilot.’ It doesn’t mean you’re not good; it just means someone hasn’t seen you yet. It doesn’t mean that in real life you’re not the greatest actor.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
Best Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes
“I’m a control freak, and anytime I direct something, I try to make it as homemade and handmade as possible. I feel like that’s my favorite type of filmmaking, where you can see the seams, and it doesn’t feel like a swiftly produced, whole seek-eyed event.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“For whatever reason, all my friends are musical wizards and in great bands, but yeah, it really skipped over me. It’s one art form that I can just sit back and appreciate and no have thoughts on. If I watch a movie, I always think, ‘Oh, I’d have done this.’ But with music, I can just sit back and think, ‘All right, this is great!'”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life because I love that environment.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“When I watch movies – when I watch ‘Star Wars’ – you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“Literally, my first audition after ‘The Life Aquatic’ was for the ‘Criminal Minds’ pilot.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I’m like, ‘Oh man, I don’t know anything.’ The only thing I’d ever technically studied was filmmaking.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
“I know when an actor goes in to audition, if they don’t get the part, it’s not because they’re a bad actor at all; it’s because it’s not quite the right fit.”-Matthew Gray Gubler
