Richard Schiff Quotes

#1. Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

Bradley Whitford

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

Richard Schiff

#3. 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.

Richard Schiff

#4. 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.

Richard Schiff

#5. Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

A.E. Samaan

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

Richard Schiff

#7. People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

Amit Kalantri

#8. 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.

Richard Schiff

#9. 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.

Richard Schiff

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

Richard Schiff

#11. Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Epicurus

#12. Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

Seneca The Younger

#13. I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.

Bobby Cannavale

#14. 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.

Richard Schiff

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

Richard Schiff

#16. 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.

Richard Schiff

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

Richard Schiff

#18. World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

Marshall McLuhan

#19. 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.

Richard Schiff

#20. I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.

Jennifer Morrison

#21. Your library is your portrait.

Linda Fairstein

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

Richard Schiff

#23. 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.

Richard Schiff

#24. Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Peter Abrahams

#25. Over the years i've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

Karen Joy Fowler

#26. The tail of a comet can extend millionsof miles into space, always in the opposite direction of the sun, blown by the solar breeze. A comets tail is the closet thing to nothing that anything can be. I love that. The closest thing to nothing.

Kelly Easton

#27. 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.

Richard Schiff

#28. I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.

Harvey Weinstein

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

Richard Schiff