William Petersen Quotes

I have to say, I'm an Illinois resident, ... But when I was a child, as we crossed the state line, we always felt the air was better up here. - William Petersen

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

I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas. - William Petersen

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

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

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

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

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

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