Quotes by Peter Sarsgaard - Page 1

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Garden State
Okay
Sleep
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I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Character
Soul
Urgency
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The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Laughing
Silence
Way
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I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Acting
Actors
Enjoy
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Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Ambitious
Politician
Trouble
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To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Directors
Doe
Tone
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If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Actors
Comedian
Doe
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I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Obstruction
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If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Acting
Circumstances
Easy
Grain
Pearls
Sand
Grain Of Sand
Pearl
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I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Hollywood
Mean
Worry
Degree
Typecast
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I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Far Away
Land
Sail
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I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Energy
Firsts
Goes On
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Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Careers
One Thing
Stage
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I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Directors
First Time
Firsts
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Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Hanging Out
Understanding
Want
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I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Character
Choices
Thinking
Dynamic
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I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Done
Evil
People
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It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Acres
Distance
Gorgeous
Land
Ended
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But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Organized
Starting
Family Work Time
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If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Auditions
Roles
Thinking
Audition
Discover
Just Be
Offered
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I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Men
Drug
People
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I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Boss
People
Trying
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I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Judging
Perspective
Play
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I still consider myself a young actor, I'm 34; I still view it as the beginning of my career. You can get infatuated with acting in a way that makes you less an actor than an acting appreciator.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Acting
Infatuated
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The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Ocean
Dramatic
Finals
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Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Actors
Looks
World
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Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Environmental
Eye
Thinking
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If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Actors
Trying
Want
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Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Home
Morning
Makeup
Ready
Taken
Twelve
Work Morning Home
All Day
Go Home
Wait
Hour
Picked
Same Thing
Tiring
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You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Bravery
People
Vinyl
Want
Life Always People
Life People Will
Attached
Original
Every Single Thing
Single Thing
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I mean I don't think it got me interested in acting. I think it might be what makes it so that I can have the idea of the variety of people in the world, different incomes. That helps. When you're going to play someone it's interesting and nice to see experiences that aren't like yours. But there's always the remarkable similarity of all people.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Mean
Nice
Thinking
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I think one of the things that might distinguish me is when I'm going to work as an actor I really try not to worry about my own personal hang-ups and just really concentrate on the work. Because I have such a respect for acting, which is something I feel like I'm constantly learning how to do, that all of my energy is always focused on the acting itself.
Peter Sarsgaard / Film Actor
Thinking
Trying
Worry
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