William Petersen

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them... ↗

— William Petersen

#adventure-stories #fiction #fiction-writing #thrillers #unicorns

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. ↗

— William Petersen

#becoming #dark #dark side #desperately #else

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles. ↗

— William Petersen

#corporate #geek #gibson #go #hollywood

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work. ↗

— William Petersen

#character #grissom #his #life #likes

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone. ↗

— William Petersen

#anything #closest #except #getting #grissom

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it. ↗

— William Petersen

#attacks #during #going #had #i

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way. ↗

— William Petersen

#certainly #character #ever #find #i

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years. ↗

— William Petersen

#chicago #damned #growing #growing up #i

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. ↗

— William Petersen

#always #breaks #chose #goes #i

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall. ↗

— William Petersen

#another #anybody #bad #bad guys #been