Wentworth Miller Quotes

• Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it’s true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Confidence, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Qualities, Humour

• I hadn’t worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I’ve ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn’t have time to be nervous – it happened so quickly.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Audition, Nervous

• I made a decision not to work out because I’m lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn’t want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he’s smarter than your average Joe.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Decisions, Work

  Tags in Character

• I’m kind of a dork. I don’t have much game. I’m not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Law and Order

• I have to laugh internally when I have to laugh internally when I’m asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don’t have answers… so sometimes I make them up.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh, Internal

• I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors – or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Aspire, Actors

• I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Choreography

• Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Preparation

• I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Extreme

• I feel as though we’re living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Feel, Living

• I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hitting, Girl

• A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another’s face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Luxury, Community

•  neither s*xy nor a star.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Neither

• I’m very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It’s a relationship that makes sense to me. I’m very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleased, Relationship

• I’ve been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Race

• I’m pretty much a couch potato.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Potato, Pretty

• A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Creatively, Book

• I’ve been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn’t told very often.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Powerful, Story, Actor

• I’ve never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox’s biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell’s been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Money

  Tags in American

Wentworth Miller (19)

Birth:	2nd June, 1972
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Actor, Model, Screenwriter

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