Sam Waterston Quotes
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.
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 was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
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 had it pretty soft.
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.
I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.
Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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.
I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
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 life in the absence of faith.
I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.
