#th

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 comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem. ↗

— William Petersen

#back #being #bugs #comes #comfortable

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 didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. ↗

— William Petersen

#could #dad #doctor #dry #felt

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 won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either. ↗

— William Petersen

#complete #either #end #grissom #him

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

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility. ↗

— William Petersen

#audience #fifty #fifty percent #give #i