Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.
Jason Patric

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
Jason Patric

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Jason Patric

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
Jason Patric

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
Jason Patric

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
Jason Patric

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
Jason Patric

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.
Jason Patric

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.
Jason Patric

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
Jason Patric


I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
Jason Patric

I try to stay under the radar.
Jason Patric

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.
Jason Patric

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
Jason Patric

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.
Jason Patric

It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.
Jason Patric

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.
Jason Patric

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
Jason Patric

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.
Jason Patric

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
Jason Patric