Peter Sarsgaard Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

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#5. 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.

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#6. If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

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#7. I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

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#12. 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.

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#13. I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.

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#14. 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.

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#15. I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

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#16. Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

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#24. I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

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#25. If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

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#26. Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

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#27. To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

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