Treat Williams Quotes

Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

All good dramas are rife with conflicts, and the conflicts have to be resolved. What I think is so great about a show that takes place in a hospital is that you have so many different people with different needs. Sometimes all those can be in conflict. The drama of Heartland also comes from the group of people waiting, and they are sometimes agonizingly waiting for a new organ for their body in order to survive. So the show is so much about survival, which creates a sense of urgency to get the organs. I think that sense of urgency is probably the most prominent dramatic quality to the show.

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.

Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

I just love working with actors in general.

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.

Disappoint anyone… hell, disappoint everyone – but don’t ever disappoint yourself.

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

I couldnt imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.