A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I thank every bully I ever had because that's the only reason I'm here. I learned how to not be affected by it and triumph over it, and that made me - again, if I had any success whatsoever, it's because these people made fun of me.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Literally, my first audition after 'The Life Aquatic' was for the 'Criminal Minds' pilot.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

Matthew Gray Gubler

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I remember a kid throwing an orange at the back of my head in Spanish class and calling me four-eyes, and I remember saying, I said, 'That's true, and I have two more eyes than you.' I felt like it was better. If I have four eyes, I'm twice as good as you.

Matthew Gray Gubler

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

Matthew Gray Gubler

My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

Matthew Gray Gubler

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I'm happy every day that I get up and I'm alive.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I'm as happy entertaining one person as I am entertaining a million people.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I'm a control freak, and anytime I direct something, I try to make it as homemade and handmade as possible. I feel like that's my favorite type of filmmaking, where you can see the seams, and it doesn't feel like a swiftly produced, whole seeky-eyed event.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

Matthew Gray Gubler