Gary Cole
Gary Cole
Gary Michael Coleis an American actor. Cole began his professional acting career on stage at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. On television, he had starring roles in the series Midnight Caller, American Gothic and Crusade. In film, Cole has had lead and supporting roles in The Brady Bunch Movie, One Hour Photo, Office Space, Dodgeball and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Cole is also known for voicing the title character of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 September 1956
CityPark Ridge, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
Clint Eastwood is a very soft-spoken, humble guy, actually, which helped put somebody like me at ease, who had never worked with somebody as huge as that. I'm sure that's not always the case with legendary people.
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.