35 Inspirational Wentworth Miller Quotes On Success

Wentworth Earl Miller III is an English-American actor and screenwriter. He rose to prominence following his starring role as Michael Scofield in the Fox series Prison Break, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2005. In his role as Michael Scofield, he is a gifted structural engineer who created an elaborate scheme to help his brother escape death row after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. His performance in the show earned him a 2005 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. May these Wentworth Miller Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.” Wentworth Miller

2. “An actor’s job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.” Wentworth Miller

3. “I’m hoping that what I am or what I’m not ethnically doesn’t limit me in anyone else’s eyes. I guarantee you it doesn’t in mine.” Wentworth Miller

4. “When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.” Wentworth Miller

5. “Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.” Wentworth Miller

6. “I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors – or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.” Wentworth Miller

7. “Everyone has their challenges.” Wentworth Miller

8. “I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.” Wentworth Miller

9. “It’s very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration.” Wentworth Miller

10. “You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.” Wentworth Miller

11. “My character in ‘Prison Break’ needs to be formidable. In reality, I’m not very tough at all.” Wentworth Miller

12. “There has to be a measure of faith. That’s what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.” Wentworth Miller

13. “I think ultimately that’s why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.” Wentworth Miller

14. “I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people’s plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.” Wentworth Miller

15. “I have very high expectations of myself. I’m a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I’m eventually better than everyone else then so be it.” Wentworth Miller

16. “You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.” Wentworth Miller

17. “This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I’m relieved and proud to have done this film.” Wentworth Miller

18. “A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.” Wentworth Miller

19. “I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You’ve got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.” Wentworth Miller

20. “You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there’s nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can’t walk away from it.” Wentworth Miller

21. “Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.” Wentworth Miller

22. “In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, ‘Have a little faith.’ In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.” Wentworth Miller

23. “Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.” Wentworth Miller

24. “It’s the way the business works, you’re not just an actor, you’re a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations” Wentworth Miller

25. “I don’t go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It’s also, I think, the key to my success.” Wentworth Miller

26. “You might look at my CV and see I’ve had 12 jobs, but I’ve been to over 450 auditions so I’ve heard ‘no’ a lot more than I’ve heard ‘yes’. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.” Wentworth Miller

27. “Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities – a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.” Wentworth Miller

28. “I feel as though we’re living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.” Wentworth Miller

29. “It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.” Wentworth Miller

30. “My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that’s helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” where she says, “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined” – so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don’t particularly belong.” Wentworth Miller

31. “Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else’s standards of what was accepted, of what was normal.” Wentworth Miller

32. “I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow’s going to bring.” Wentworth Miller

33. “Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren’t there to teach your children the lessons that you haven’t bothered to teach them at home yourself.” Wentworth Miller

34. “I hadn’t worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I’ve ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn’t have time to be nervous – it happened so quickly.” Wentworth Miller

35. “I didn’t come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.” Wentworth Miller

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