Quotes by Sam Waterston - Page 1

I don't like driving much.
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Painting is very interesting.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Interesting
Painting
Very Interesting
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I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Dumb
Dumb People
People
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If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Fall
Moving
Moving Forward
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I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Talent
Thinking
Villain
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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Villain
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Legal
Feet
Fun
Play
Fun More Than
Lawyers
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Abraham
Ifs
Typecast
Lincoln
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I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
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Bait
Thinking
Always Doing Something
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Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Frequently
Shakespeare
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The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Cities
Country
Virtue
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In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Interesting
Needs
Order
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The bad guys dont always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Bad Guys
Good Guy
Guy
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Bad Guys
Pure
Good Always Bad
Good Bad Always
Good Guys
Necessarily
Punished
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Able
Heads Up
Stills
Allow
Popular
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Firsts
Proud
Roles
Everybody Else
Obviously
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I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
Sam Waterston / Actor
News
Obsessed
Tvs
Watches
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
Sam Waterston / Actor
New York
Looks
Might
Began
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Actors
Play
Ugly
Lincoln
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Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Hurt
Limits
Too Much
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I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Home
Listening
Opera
Occasionally
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Effort
No Problem
Problem
Improved
Paltry
Undertaking
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Directors
Heart
Play
Beside
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That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Actors
Good Actors
Use
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I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.
Sam Waterston / Actor
People
Thinking
Trying
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I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.
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People
Thinking
Want
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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Becoming
Cab
Cab Drivers
Looking Back
Roles
Saved
Tables
Waiting
Looking Back Looking Back
Cab Driver
Driver
Wait
Guess
Literally
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I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
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Broke
Careers
Done
If I Could
Offering
Good Done Always
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The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.
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Life
Character
Teaching
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Business
Fate
Show Business
Strong
Determines
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Success
Aphorism
Father
Inhale
Thinking
Anyone Else
Note
Subject
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We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.
Sam Waterston / Actor
Frustrated
Goal
Shoes
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I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.
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Communication
Inspiration
Yale
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