Quotes by Philip Baker Hall

About Philip Baker Hall:

Philip Baker Hall is an American actor. Although he is rarely cast for the lead role, Hall has portrayed exceptional characters such as President Richard Nixon in Robert Altman's Secret Honor (1984), Sydney in Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight (1996), and Arthur Pratt in Duck (2005). However, he is probably best known for his stirring portrayal of Lieutenant Bookman, Library Cop on Seinfeld. Most critics have lauded him for his ancillary role as 60 Minutes' exec. producer Don Hewitt, opposite Christopher Plummer and Al Pacino, in the 1999 drama The Insider.
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'Mariah' was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of 'Secret Honor.' That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And... I was the casting d...

Philip Baker Hall

Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little...

Philip Baker Hall

Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody.

Philip Baker Hall

'Good Times' was with a live audience, three camera, and that was really intimidating. Because there were people on both sides, moving from set to set, and it was pretty scary. As I say, I didn't have a foundation in Hollywood. I hardly knew anybody....

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Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.

Philip Baker Hall

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

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Author Bio

  • NamePhilip Baker Hall
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornSeptember 10, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Teacher