Quotes from Michael Trucco


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I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.


The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.


Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.


It's not unknown that Vancouver is a huge destination for television and film. It has been for many years. It just seems to be that I'm drawn to the show that shoots in Vancouver.


It's an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel - it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.


I come back home almost every weekend, or my wife comes up every other weekend to Vancouver. So, in that sense, we make it work. It's just a great city. It's a great country. They've been good to me, and I have no problems being up there.


You just can't fake chemistry.


The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.


Police work was fascinating, and I didn't imagine that acting was something a kid from San Mateo, California, could really pursue.


Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.


My friends all tell me I was born with a horseshoe up my butt.


If I hadn't become an actor, I would've pursued a race-car driving career.


I'm the luckiest guy alive.


I'm not accustomed to taking a swing at a woman's head. That's not in my DNA.


I would love to shoot in San Francisco permanently. It would be such a joy to come back home full circle.


I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.


I try to have a true line in every character I play.


I hate to dance. The thought of having to dance terrifies me.


I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.


I don't really retain much from the first couple semesters of my criminal justice studies.