Quotes by Peter Sarsgaard

Peter Sarsgaard

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

Careers

One Thing

Stage

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

Ambitious

Politician

Trouble

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 morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

Home

Morning

Taken

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.

Character

Choices

Thinking

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

Hollywood

Mean

Worry

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.

Judging

Perspective

Play

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

Character

Soul

Urgency

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.

Drug

Men

People

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

Obstruction

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

Acting

Actors

Enjoy

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Evil

Eye

Far Away

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Firsts

Garden State

Goes On

Hanging Out

Hollywood

Home

Infatuated

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Quotes by Peter Sarsgaard

Peter Sarsgaard

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

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

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 really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

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.

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

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

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

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