Peter Sarsgaard Quotes

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

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

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.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I still consider myself a young actor, I'm 34; I still view it as the beginning of my career. You can get infatuated with acting in a way that makes you less an actor than an acting appreciator.

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

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

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

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

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.

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