Quotes by Richard Schiff

Richard Schiff

I didn’t expect NBC would be at all thrilled about me, because the year before the West Wing I had rejected a pilot at the last minute and got them very upset. I ended up not coming to the casting – in fact it happened four different times because I just wasn’t convinced that I wanted to do television.

Different

Rejected

Upset

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

Skulls

Wife

Years

I go in to Warner Brothers to test and in the waiting area I saw Allison Janney sitting there, who I did not know but I was a big fan of. I said to myself, “Wait a second. These guys might know what they’re doing if they’re hiring her.”

Brother

Guy

Waiting

I had been used to improvising and even in the audition I was feeling free to rearrange Aaron Sorkin words a little bit, as lovely as they were. I didn’t find out until after I got the part how furious Aaron was at me for doing that. They said, “He was livid. He did everything in his power not to jump down your throat!” But I came to realise that Aaron was writing in metre and the rhythm of the language is very important.

Feelings

Lovely

Writing

I love my wife but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing – an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us – will keep us where we are, where it is safe.

Fighting

Frustration

Moving

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

Actors

Als

Mean

I still have the mentality of someone who doesn’t know where he’s going to sleep and doesn’t know if he has enough money for gas to get to the next job interview. I don’t think that mentality ever leaves, you know?

Enough

Sleep

Thinking

I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called ‘Goose and Tomtom’ by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I’m doing the table read of the film version of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon – one of the great films of our generation.

Our Generation

Play

Years

I was happy to spend time with my family, get to know my daughter, who was born during The West Wing. I missed her first words. I missed her first steps. I’d leave work before she woke up and got home after she was asleep and didn’t really know her. So it was important for that reason to reintroduce myself to the family after all of that hard work.

Daughter

Hard Work

Home

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

Challenges

Character

Live Life

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Actors

Als

America

Appreciate

Breathe

Brother

Challenges

Character

Couple

Dancer

Daughter

Different

Dirty

Discipline

Dream

Enough

Feelings

Fighting

Frustration

Guy

Hard Work

Home

Iran

Jersey

Kids

Like You

Live Life

Long

Lovely

Mean

Mentality

Morning

Moving

Office

Our Generation

Parent

People

Play

Reactions

Real

Rejected

Skulls

Sleep

Sometimes

Stage

Theatre

Thinking

Too Late

Tough

Upset

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Quotes by Richard Schiff

Richard Schiff

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

I go in to Warner Brothers to test and in the waiting area I saw Allison Janney sitting there, who I did not know but I was a big fan of. I said to myself, “Wait a second. These guys might know what they’re doing if they’re hiring her.”

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

I still have the mentality of someone who doesn’t know where he’s going to sleep and doesn’t know if he has enough money for gas to get to the next job interview. I don’t think that mentality ever leaves, you know?

I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called ‘Goose and Tomtom’ by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I’m doing the table read of the film version of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon – one of the great films of our generation.

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

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