Latest Peter Sarsgaard Quotes from Interviews

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• I still consider myself a young actor, I'm 34; I still view it as the beginning of my career. You can get infatuated with acting in a way that makes you less an actor than an acting appreciator.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Acting, Infatuated

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Directors, Firsts, First Time

  Source: collider.com

• I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Energy, Goes On, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Character, Soul, Urgency

  Source: collider.com

• Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Looks, Actors, World

  Source: collider.com

• To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Directors, Doe, Tone

  Source: collider.com

• I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Land, Far Away, Sail

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Trying, Actors, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Eye, Thinking, Environmental

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  People, Evil, Done

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Understanding, Want, Hanging Out

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I mean I don't think it got me interested in acting. I think it might be what makes it so that I can have the idea of the variety of people in the world, different incomes. That helps. When you're going to play someone it's interesting and nice to see experiences that aren't like yours. But there's always the remarkable similarity of all people.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Ocean, Finals, Dramatic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  People, Boss, Trying

  "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

• 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.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Play, Perspective, Judging

  "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

• I think one of the things that might distinguish me is when I'm going to work as an actor I really try not to worry about my own personal hang-ups and just really concentrate on the work. Because I have such a respect for acting, which is something I feel like I'm constantly learning how to do, that all of my energy is always focused on the acting itself.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Thinking, Worry, Trying

  "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

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

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Careers, Stage, One Thing

  "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

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

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Acting, Actors, Enjoy

  "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

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

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Ambitious, Trouble, Politician

  Source: www.esquire.com

• If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Comedian, Doe, Actors

  Source: www.gq.com