Jason Ritter Quotes

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

There’s something about being rejected – when I go out without my friends, I’m reminded of how I’m actually quite antisocial. I don’t look like a guy who feels like that, but it’s very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I’m lost.

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I’m certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, ‘I don’t really necessarily want to hang out with this guy’ or ‘I would never be this kind of guy in my life.’ I think it’s part of an actor’s job to say, ‘Maybe you could be.’

I’ve certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don’t know if it’s because there’s so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.

I’m always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.