Stephen Dorff Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.

But my whole thing is that I want to work with people I respect and can learn from.

But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

I had just come off playing the bad guy in so many movies that my mom and my grandmother were driving me crazy to play the good guy again.

I have a studio at my house and we play a lot of music. So, whenever I'm not working and dealing with Hollywood, I'm usually writing music and stuff.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

I think the business has changed. It's changed since I've been in it. It's different now than it was in 92, 93 when I was in the Power of One.

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

If you do the same thing every time as an actor it gets boring and so I try to challenge myself and do not what's normal.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

Trivia

Stephen was listed as a potential nominee in the 2006 Razzie Award nominating ballots in the Worst Supporting Actor category for his performance in the film Alone in the Dark. He failed to receive the nomination.

Stephen is 5' 8?" (1.74 m).

Stephen was a huge Nirvana fan before Kurt Cobain’s suicide.

Stephen describes Blood and Wine as the greatest experience of his career.

Stephen is a keen piano player.

Stephen’s father is composer Steve Dorff.

In 1999, Stephen won the MTV Movie Award 1999 for Best Villain, for his performance in the movie Blade.