Sam Waterston Quotes

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• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
• The bad guys dont always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
• I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
• As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
• If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess…
• I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
• 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…
• Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think…
• I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
• I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
• I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
• I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
• If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
• Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
• Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
• I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I…
• I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.
• Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

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