Matthew gray gubler is an american actor, director, fashion model, painter, and illustrator, who is best known for his role as dr. Spencer reid in the cbs crime drama criminal minds. He is also a talented storyteller and has an impressive array of quotes to his name. In this collection of matthew gray gubler quotes, you will find his inspiring thoughts on life, love, creativity, and more. Enjoy these captivating and thought-provoking words from one of the most unique and creative minds in the entertainment industry.
Best Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes About Filmmaking
🪀 “My dream is to make the world’s scariest PG movie. Because I feel that if you can do that, then you’ve done something special.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
“When I’m directing I’m working from 100% of my brain, but when I’m acting I’m working from my heart.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I studied directing prior to acting and I’ve done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I never thought I’d be making a living off of acting – it’s still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “All that matters is whether or not you’re doing your best to entertain.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I’ve always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “The way this business works is all about luck and timing.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “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 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’ve always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes About Acting
🪀 “I once gave a girl a bloody fake ear in a Tiffany jewelry box with a letter that said, “will you Gogh to prom with me?” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I’ve taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I’d get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That’s why I don’t care for sports.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “My favorite time of year is October, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I know that watching horror movies was such a special thing to me as a child and my only dream is that I get to make it feel like Halloween all year round for other kids, for other weirdos like me.” — 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
🪀 “If you are lucky enough to find a weirdo never let them go.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I find it’s perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “Take criticism, smash it into dust, add color & use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking thru endless fields of greatness.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
“I’m obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don’t cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I would love to be on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ I’d love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked ‘Twin Peaks.’ If I had a time machine I’d be in that.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I get really sad when people say, ‘I’m no good. I haven’t been cast in a pilot.’ It doesn’t mean you’re not good; it just means someone hasn’t seen you yet. It doesn’t mean that in real life you’re not the greatest actor.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I’ve had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I’m just so thankful for it. But at the same time, I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I’m the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don’t really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they’d be like, ‘Go get that guy Gubler. He’ll be in your student film.’ I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “Cargo pants freak me out. Too many pockets. I always forget where my wallet is.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)” — Matthew Gray Gubler
Famous Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes
🪀 “I feel like if you wake up in the morning and can breathe, things are sweet. You have nothing to complain about. We’re so lucky. You’re alive, so enjoy it.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I’m serious! In ‘Bambi,’ the mother dies, but you don’t see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see Bambi alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.” — 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 heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I’ve seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in Hollywood and then wither into bobble-headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting Hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I guess I’m just in the flow and riding the wave.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I’m usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I’m like a Jedi on the badminton court. It’s as if my body was built specifically for it – tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I’m bad at reality.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “Success does not mean success.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I live in my own bubble. I’m in Gublerland.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous Muppet.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “For 27 days, I had to… sort of lick butter to stay alive.” — 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
🪀 “It’d be cool to chipmunk-ize “The Virgin Suicides” soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
Funny Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes
🪀 “I look a little like Beaker. I think I’m a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It’s Muppety hair.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
“I was wearing women’s jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso – it’s incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I’ve always been a horror fan! Ever since I can vastly remember, and I think it’s because I was so terrified of monsters and ghosts as a kid that I had to sleep in front of my parent’s room until I was 12.” — 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 any way I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I’m beyond proud and happy – 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
🪀 “France has given us the best filmmakers and food.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
🪀 “I looked like a ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Goomba. It’s arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
Conclusion
Matthew gray gubler is a truly inspirational person who has given us many words of wisdom over the years. His quotes serve as a reminder that life is meant to be enjoyed, that love and happiness are attainable, and that we should never give up on our dreams.