If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like. — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get. — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it. — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding. — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that. — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
“In reality, conclusions are muddy, there are no final curtains, and life just goes on.” — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
