Quotes by Matt Ross

About Matt Ross:

Matthew Brandon "Matt" Ross is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Alby Grant in the HBO series, Big Love and as Eddie Scott in the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. He also directed the feature film 28 Hotel Rooms. In 2011, he played Charles Montgomery on the first season of FX's anthology series American Horror Story.
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A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself. A lot of what happens in the industry is that you are cast based on other things that people have seen you do, or how you are perceived to look or sound. If everyone thinks you're biz...

Matt Ross

I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

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Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and...

Matt Ross

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the whi...

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I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

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Author Bio

  • NameMatt Ross
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornJanuary 3, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director