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Creed Bratton

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Creed Bratton is an American actor born on February 8, 1943. He is known for his diverse roles in the film and television industry, including his iconic role as Michael Scott in the television series 'The Office'.

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“I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.”

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“In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.”

Spirit Animal Wonder Cases Ducks Platypus

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“You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.”

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“I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.”

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“What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.”

People Doe Art Passion Emotion Painting Painter Playwright

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“I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.”

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“I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.”

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“I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I just write down information given to me from the muse and how that works for songwriters. Record the muse and the muse delivers.”

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“If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Song Sound Rocks Fine Musician Rock And Roll

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“I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.”

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“I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.”

Ifs Thinking Want Desire

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“I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it.”

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“I lived in London in 1965 and 1972. I love it there and I'm always very creative in that vibe. Would love to live for awhile in Scotland/Ireland and Britain. Great appreciation there for the folk scene and song crafting.”

Song Creative Scene Folks Appreciation London Britain Ireland Scotland

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“Women in stores will pull their children away from me sometimes so they won't catch the crazy Creed virus. Other folks are disappointed that I'm not that guy in person.”

Children Persons Sometimes Guy Crazy Folks Stores Disappointed Creeds Viruses That Guy

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“I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally comes down to the writers who really got the character and wrote so many memorable lines.”

Thinking Real Character Actors Lines Fans Appreciate Memorable

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“I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.”

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“Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.”

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“When I first went on [Facebook], I found there were five or six Creed Bratton sites. It was all over the place. I had to compete with other people saying they were me. It was nuts, so this is nice that people know that if they're gonna send something to me, I'm gonna be with my weird little mind looking at what they have to say. And what they're seeing is actually me.”

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“No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.”

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“Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.”

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“The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.”

Men Jobs Differences Homeless Whatever It Takes

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“I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many, many women – often outdoors in the mud and the rain – and it’s possible that a man slipped in. There’d be no way of knowing.”

Men Way Made Knowing Rain Creeds Homosexuality Mud Offended

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“I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times and I have paid dearly.”

Two Guy Rooms Numbers Normal Paid Caught Weird Things

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“I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.”

Fun Numbers Leader Involved Followers More Money Cult

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“When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.”

Teenager Iron Lungs

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“The Taliban is the worst...great heroin though.”

Worst Heroin Taliban

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“Honestly, I love stealing things.”

Honestly Stealing Stealing Things

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“Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.”

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“I'm a survivalist and a survivor.”

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“Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.”

Parent Grandmother Grandfather My Grandfather

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“Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.”

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“I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.”

People Walks New York Bother New Yorkers Very Cool I Love New York Notice Me

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“I don't sit down to write a song, per se.”

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“I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.”

Fire College Busy Iron Nicknames Busy Life Being Busy Keep Busy

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“I love music so much; I've always played.”

Music Love I Love Music

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“I was a drama major through college.”

College Drama Majors

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“I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.”

Europe Folks Israel Traveled Trios North Africa

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“I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.”

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“In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.”

Children Artist Pounds Starving Posters Starving Artist

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“I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.”

Way Bigs Turns Doors Brother Roots Radio Grass Sixty Eighty Turn-on Hendrix

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“I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.”

Stills Kids Remember Fall Mom Gun Method Lays My Mom Climbing Lunch Couches Saddles Climbing Up

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“There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.”

People Littles Madness Following Sixty Continuing Continuing On

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About the Author

Born: February 8, 1943
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 42

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