Top 40 Peter Sarsgaard Quotes
#1. 'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?
Cory Hardrict
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.
Peter Sarsgaard
#5. Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.
Peter Sarsgaard
#6. If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
Thomas Jefferson
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. There is a charm in saying nothing, in saying nothing at all. There is a charm in - experiencing.
Peter Cave
#10. The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
Peter Sarsgaard
#11. 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
#12. I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
Dan Devine
#13. It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
Eric Hobsbawm
#14. 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
#15. I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.
Peter Sarsgaard
#16. I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.
Peter Sarsgaard
#17. If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
Peter Sarsgaard
#19. God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.
Philip Yancey
#20. To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.
Peter Sarsgaard
#21. Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.
Agatha Christie
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
John Dewey
#26. 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
#27. I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.
Peter Sarsgaard
#28. 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
#29. If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.
Peter Sarsgaard
#30. Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.
Stacy London
#31. I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
Peter Sarsgaard
#32. family is a group of people thrown together by fate who become weirder and weirder until nobody else can understand them.
Liam Pieper
#33. 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
#34. Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
Karl Marx
#35. 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
#36. Remember,even if we can't see them, those we love are always with us.
Lucinda Riley
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand.
Jonathan Gottschall
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