Richard Schiff Quotes

#1. Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

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#2. I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.

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#3. It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.

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#4. I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that.

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#5. I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

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#6. I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy ... I wanna scare people.

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#7. I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

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#8. We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

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#9. I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

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#10. I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

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#11. Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

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#12. I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

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#13. I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.

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#14. Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

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#15. Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

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#16. My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.

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