Peter Jacobson Quotes

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

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

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!

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

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.

Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero.

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

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.

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

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.

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

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.