The Wit and Wisdom: PRESS ARCHIVES

TUC ON ACTING AND OTHER ROLES

On Other Roles

(on playing the role of GH's Dr. Dorman) "I'm no longer playing the hypocritical David Vickers. I'm now playing the Hippocratic Dr. Dorman [on General Hospital]." (SOD 10/22/96)

(on playing Dr. Dorman) "I always wanted to walk into an operating room with my hands up in the air, like they do on TV. I did that today and said a bunch of medial jargon, so I'm feeling very official." (SOD 10/26/96)

(on his most fulfilling work experience) "Well, let's see, the time that I felt most excited to be acting is the first time I was cast in a really good part in a play in college. And the elation that went along with that was so fulfilling that it made me want to act more, and it turned into a career. ... I never decided I wanted to be an actor. In school, I did it for fun and I was always trying to cut up around my friends and it wasn't until that experience that I thought, 'This is something I would like to 'do.'" (SOD.com October 2005)

"Well, I did a movie called The Good Shepherd that Robert De Niro directed, which comes out in December. I got to work on it with Matt Damon. And I did a pilot last spring for Fox called 13 Graves. So I'm basically back on the track of looking for stuff like that." (SOW 11/28/06)

(on going back and forth between OLTL and Desperate Housewives) "Things have actually been working out really well, so that I have been able to continue to be David Vickers by day and [Housewives'] Bob Hunter by night... Neither one of them is a masked superhero, however." (SID 11/20/07)

On Acting in General

"I have plenty to say, but I think one of the problems that our culture has is that actors talk too much. The actors I'm most interested in are the ones I don't know anything about. I shy away from letting people know who I am, personally, because I don't want them to. I want them to know the characters I play." (SOW 9/28/04)

"The actors I like to watch -- Cary Grant, Kevin Klein -- the reason they are interesting is because you don't really know what they are going to do next. You know the type of parts that they play but you don't know what they are going to do scene to scene. I guess that's magnetism, that's what makes them the stars that you know them to be. That's what I try to do in a scene." (SOD.com October 2005)