Peter Jacobson Quotes & Sayings

#1. I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.

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#2. I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.

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#3. I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

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#4. I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake!

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#5. When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.

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#6. Woody Allen, that was a dream come true, although I never really talked to him. Auditioning was fun, because you don't really hear much about the script. They just said, "They want a Woody Allen type," so of course I got the call.

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#7. Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

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#8. Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

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#9. We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.

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#10. Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly ... "

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#11. I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious.

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#12. I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

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#13. I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy every second - even though apparently I didn't.

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#14. Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God!

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#15. I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.

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#16. Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

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#17. I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.

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#18. Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

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#19. I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.

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#20. Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes ... yet.

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#21. Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.

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#22. It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

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#23. I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.

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#24. Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

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#25. My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

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#26. I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.

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#27. I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

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#28. In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying to know, but I just don't ask. If it's something that I think will really affect how I play it and it's information I need to know, than I'll ask, for sure.

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#29. Of course, on every job there are moments where you're not having fun.

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#30. Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

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#31. I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews.

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#32. I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie.

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#33. I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.

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#34. When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

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#35. I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.

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#36. You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.

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#37. Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it ... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.

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#38. I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool.

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#39. I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

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#40. Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

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#41. If it's a good role, I'm happy to play it.

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#42. I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.

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#43. I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately.

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