Latest Sam Waterston Quotes from Interviews

• We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.

  Sam Waterston

  Shoes, Goal, Frustrated

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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.

  Sam Waterston

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Sam Waterston

  Use, Actors, Good Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

  Sam Waterston

  Moving, Fall, Moving Forward

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.

  Sam Waterston

  Order, Interesting, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

  Sam Waterston

  Country, Cities, Virtue

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

• I don't like driving much.

  Sam Waterston

  Driving

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

• I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.

  Sam Waterston

  Communication, Inspiration, Yale

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

• Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

  Sam Waterston

  Hurt, Too Much, Limits

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

• I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.

  Sam Waterston

  Thinking, People, Want

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.