60 Motivational Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes

American actor and fashion model Matthew Gray Fubler is best known for playing the role of Dr. Spencer Reid, a criminal profiler in 'Criminal Minds', a CBS television show.

Matthew Gray Gubler is also an illustrator, filmmaker, author, and director; Gubler directed 11 episodes of the CBS television show 'Criminal Minds'. Gubler was ranked on the list of the top 50 male models on models.com.

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Matthew Gray Gubler has been successful on the big and small screens. His most famous role is Dr. Spencer Reid, which Gubler has been playing for the past 11 years. He won an Emmy Award for participating in the 2012 mini-series 'The Beauty Inside'. Find here the most famous Matthew Gray Gubler quotes.

"My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately."

"I'm as happy entertaining one person as I am entertaining a million people."

"I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave."

"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 liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.”

"I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious!"

"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."

"Literally, my first audition after 'The Life Aquatic' was for the 'Criminal Minds' pilot."

"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."

"My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment."

"I had to... sort of lick butter to stay alive."

"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."

"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."

"When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions."

"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."

"I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)."

"I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics."

"Nothing violates one's sense of security more than being attacked in their own home."

- Dr. Spencer Reid, 'Criminal Minds.'

"The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end."

"Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine."

"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 anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium."

“France has given us the best filmmakers and food.”

"I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received."

(Read here the famous Matthew Gray Gubler quotes on life and people, which will definitely motivate you to be true.)

Matthew Gray Gubler wanted to be an entertainer at age five and began taking magic lessons. This multi-talented artist has received the utmost respect for his paintings and best-selling books. Below are the 15 motivational Matthew Gray Gubler quotes from the actor who will remind you to say true to yourself.

"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."

“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.”

"Evil can't be scientifically defined. It's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably linked to religion and mythology."

- Dr. Spencer Reid, ‘Criminal Minds.’

"Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness"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."

“With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.”

"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."

"I try never to limit my art to a medium."

"I know when an actor goes in to audition, if they don't get the part, it's not because they're a bad actor at all; it's because it's not quite the right fit."

"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."

"Sometimes for an artist, the only difference between insanity and genius is success."

- Dr. Spencer Reid, 'Criminal Minds', Season 3: True Night.

"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 anyway I can."

Despite being horrified by the darkness and horror from a young age, Gubler realized and discovered various methods to overcome his fear, became obsessed with ghost stories, and became a Halloween enthusiast. Here are 15 interesting and unique Matthew Gray Gubler quotes about his take on horror, stories, and darkness.

"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?"

"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."

"For whatever reason, all my friends are musical wizards and in great bands, but yeah, it really skipped over me."

"Cargo pants freak me out. Too many pockets. I always forget where my wallet is."

"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."

- August 6, 2014, Yell! Magazine.

"I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, and sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever."

- August 6, 2014, Yell! Magazine.

"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."

"I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland."

"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."

- August 6, 2014, Yell! Magazine.

Matthew Gray Gubler is also a perfectly acceptable and exceptional painter, model, and author. His paintings were highlighted in a BuzzFeed interview in 2013. Gubler illustrated his first book 'Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging and Being Yourself' in April 2019. Read below the inspiring Matthew Gray Gubler quotes.

"I find it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional."

"My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get."

"It feels, to me, when you're with someone you really love, you never look at your phone."

"Hotch, repetitive thinking is a death mill for the brain. For complete brain usage, diverse stimulation is the key."

- Dr. Spencer Reid, 'Criminal Minds.'

"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."

"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."

"Actually It's More Like We're Looking For A Needle In A Pile Of Needles. A Needle Would Stand Out In A Haystack."

- Dr. Spencer Reid, 'Criminal Minds.'

“Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.”

"I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked."

"Take criticism, smash it into dust, add color & use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking thru endless fields of greatness."

"I'm beyond proud and happy – I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few.'

“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.”

“My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.”

"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."

"When I'm directing I'm working from 100% of my brain, but when I'm acting I'm working from my heart."