With every passing week, I get an opportunity to improve my acting because I get to do it day in, day out. So a lot of times, I compare it to being a professional athlete.
— George Eads
To get to wear the costume of Evel Knievel, are you kidding me? When I was a kid, I had Superman. I had Spiderman. I had Evel Knievel.
I thought actors were born in Hollywood. I didn't know how to go about it.
I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.
I've done some things I've been scared to see. But you can kind of feel when you've got a hit on your hands.
I don't speak fluent Spanish. I took it in college.
I grew up in the late '70s. We played outside all day. I think that's where I got the whole notion of being an actor, you know, stunt fighting with my friends.
I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time.
'CSI' was a little cutting-edge at the time because it made TV look like movies. It was shot in that Jerry Bruckheimer style with dolly shots, putting the camera on rails so stylistically, it looked aesthetically more like a film.
I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.
I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.
I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.
I love what I do and I love the fans.
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
If I get a free moment, I want to get outside, play golf, go fishin'.
I think my father's skepticism fueled me to work harder.
Around '93, I had to get a couple of jobs. I had a job for a while working at a gym, just so I could work out for free, because I knew if I didn't exercise, I'd go crazy. It's the key to my mental health, actually.
I grew up in a pretty small town in Texas, population 8,000, and we had a lot of open spaces.
Really, the measure of a man is when they're tired and exhausted.
I've had a lot of sports cars.
I'm an outdoorsy guy. I've always been.
A lot of movie stars don't want to go to TV because of how hard you have to work. You have to be a soldier.
I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.
Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.
I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.
No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.
I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.
Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.
I wasn't raised to be the braggart.
I really love Evel Knievel, what he stood for.
Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.
It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when 'CSI' ended.
'CSI' is a part of who I am.
Laurence Fishburne is my mentor.
Sleep is the gasoline that keeps me going.
I love action. I love stage combat.
Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.
I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.
We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.
I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.
The show has boundaries right now we're trying to widen them not break them.
I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.
I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.
Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.
