Peter Sarsgaard Quotes

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• Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the…
• 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.
• Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.
• The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
• You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
• When people say, 'The movie sucked, but you didn't'; that means you didn't swing hard enough. You bunted. If the movie goes down, I want…
• 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…
• When I finished filming and I flew back home to Australia, I really did not want to take that 14-hour flight.
• I get so happy to see someone like Jodie descend into absurdity and be human.
• He just talked about religion in a way that I could hear. It's one thing to have your parents tell you about faith, but to…
• I've never acted with someone who I knew so well before I started,
• Everyone has their own opinion about what this country is doing. Personally, I wish we hadn't gone to Iraq.
• I don't care, really, whether the movie polarizes people, Republican, Democrat...I don't think it should. But what's more important to me is that I hope…
• When you don't have power, which I still don't in the grand Hollywood scheme of things, you get offered things that you wouldn't ordinarily be…

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