Latest Peter Jacobson Quotes from Interviews

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• I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

  Peter Jacobson

  Strong, Character, Strong Character

  Source: collider.com

• In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying to know, but I just don't ask. If it's something that I think will really affect how I play it and it's information I need to know, than I'll ask, for sure.

  Peter Jacobson

  Thinking, Play, Dying

  Source: collider.com

• I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.

  Peter Jacobson

  Doctors, Play, Lawyer

  Source: collider.com

• Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

  Peter Jacobson

  Thinking, Land, Different

  Source: collider.com

• You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.

  Peter Jacobson

  Writing, Tired, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.

  Peter Jacobson

  New York, Home, Emotional

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you do an episode about something like transverse myelitis, it's a real disease that's out there, there are a lot of people that have it, and it's hard to get funding for them because people don't know about it. There are actually a lot of doctors that don't know about it. But if you do an episode of House, all of a sudden 15 million people are hearing the words, and it's an opportunity.

  Peter Jacobson

  Real, Opportunity, Doctors

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.

  Peter Jacobson

  Hands, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

• People would stop me in the street - my demographic tends to be the elderly Jewish women from Miami; I think they tend to fancy me as someone that would've been good with their daughter or something - and a lot of them will do the wrist-slapping thing. "Oh, you're a terrible man! Just terrible!" And I'm, like, "Well, it's just a show. I'm just playing a character."

  Peter Jacobson

  Daughter, Character, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.

  Peter Jacobson

  Fun, Real, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.

  Peter Jacobson

  Years, Shows, Five

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

  Peter Jacobson

  Intimidation, Percent

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

  Peter Jacobson

  Smart, Guy, Bars

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy every second - even though apparently I didn't.

  Peter Jacobson

  Upset, Three, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.

  Peter Jacobson

  Thinking, People, Able

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately.

  Peter Jacobson

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

  Peter Jacobson

  Thinking, Self, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

  Peter Jacobson

  Energy, Way, Toes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Of course, on every job there are moments where you're not having fun.

  Peter Jacobson

  Jobs, Fun, Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

  Peter Jacobson

  Directors, Done, Foxes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

  Peter Jacobson

  Interesting, Directors, Wonderful

  Source: www.avclub.com

• We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.

  Peter Jacobson

  Jesus, Doors, Lunch

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.

  Peter Jacobson

  Space, Acting, Cinema

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.

  Peter Jacobson

  Fun, Play, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.

  Peter Jacobson

  Tables, Next, Six

  Source: www.avclub.com