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40 Eric Dane Quotes About Acting & Life
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Eric Dane is an American actor. He is most famously recognized for his appearances as the character ‘Dr. Mark Sloan’ in the widely celebrated American TV series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.
Dane successfully landed roles in other big film projects, such as ‘Marley & Me’, ‘Valentine’s Day’, and ‘Burlesque’. Dane’s most recent acting gig is the popular coming-of-age TV show ‘Euphoria’ which he stars alongside fellow big-name actors, such as ‘Zendaya” and ‘Austin Abrams’.
His career started to take an incline when he landed recurring roles in the shows ‘Gideon’s Crossing’ and ‘Charmed’. Dane notably got his first major feature film appearance in the movie ‘The Basket’. However, it was not until he landed the gig in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ that Dane made it as a household name.
Here’s our collection of the most inspiring Eric Dane quotes:
40 Eric Dane Quotes About Acting & Life
1. “What I love about acting is experiencing the absolute moments of – you know – of getting lost in the world you’ve created for yourself.” – Eric Dane
2. “Television is a lot of fun. It’s faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I’ve only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle, and end. You know your character’s arch.” – Eric Dane
3. “Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it’s much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.” – Eric Dane
4. “Sometimes I feel like I’m lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.” – Eric Dane
5. “I loved doing Grey’s Anatomy.” – Eric Dane
6. “I can’t say no to my girls. They melt my heart. I’m very grateful for my family.” – Eric Dane
7. “I think when you’re done with work, you go home.” – Eric Dane
8. “I like guys who, no matter what, are men.” – Eric Dane
9. “At the end of the day, you want to work with people you want to work with – regardless of what they’ve done. Being able to spend 15 hours on a set with somebody and enjoy every minute of it – that’s what it’s really about.” – Eric Dane
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10. “Love, at first sight, is different when you’re 32 than when you’re 22. In your early 20s, you fall in love after three weeks.” – Eric Dane
11. “I’m not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn’t be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.” – Eric Dane
12. “With a pilot, there’s a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is that, throughout the season, you get to spend a little more quality time with the characters and get to know them a bit better, whether it’s based on circumstance or relationships they’ve created with other characters.” – Eric Dane
13. “I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don’t want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can’t do it, though, I’m surprisingly understanding.” – Eric Dane
14. “Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don’t know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.” – Eric Dane
15. “I don’t know if there’s any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There’s no change more dramatic.” – Eric Dane
16. “I’ve never seen ‘Game of Thrones.’ I’ve never seen ‘Breaking Bad.’ I can’t tell you one character outside of Walter White.” – Eric Dane
17. “If I can get to the gym 3-4 days a week and spend 50 minutes to an hour and a half, irrespective of whether I lift something or not, I’m getting in shape.” – Eric Dane
18. “I’ve always had a great feel for space and how objects occupy it.” – Eric Dane
19. “I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you’re doing it the way I do it.” – Eric Dane
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20. “I couldn’t comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.” – Eric Dane
21. “The person I am is who I am. My life is my career, my career is my life.” – Eric Dane
22. “I never had a family, and now I do. I know I’m a very lucky guy.” – Eric Dane
23. “Never ask a woman when she’s due unless you know for a fact she’s expecting.” – Eric Dane
24. “I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.” – Eric Dane
25. “I grew up in Northern California on the peninsula. It was a beautiful house, but it was very traditional. It wasn’t mid-century modern. I’m talking 1970s, early ’80s – design didn’t even go ‘Wall Street’ until, like, 1986.” – Eric Dane
26. “I’m a hands-on dad.” – Eric Dane
27. “I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milkshake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I’ve lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?” – Eric Dane
28. “There’s a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I’m terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.” – Eric Dane
29. “I’m out of bed before the alarm goes off.” – Eric Dane
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30. “My skin is very sensitive.” – Eric Dane
31. “Being a parent is the toughest thing I’ve ever done. But I’m not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I’m the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flashcards.” – Eric Dane
32. “I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don’t make my own stock. I just use a base like a chicken stock, but everything else, all the ingredients, I do on my own.” – Eric Dane
33. “I’m a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don’t have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.” – Eric Dane
34. “On ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ I didn’t have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.” – Eric Dane
35. “I always thought of myself as a big-dog kinda guy.” – Eric Dane
36. “My father served in Vietnam – the respect I have for the Navy is profound.” – Eric Dane
37. “We’ve all made mistakes.” – Eric Dane
38. “The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.” – Eric Dane
39. “McSteamy’s been really good to me. He’s opened a lot of doors.” – Eric Dane
40. “Any free time I have, the family comes first.” – Eric Dane
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