Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Sam Waterston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Sam Waterston.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Samuel Atkinson Waterston is an American actor, producer, and director. Waterston is known for his work in theater, television and film. He has received various award nominations including an Academy Award, Primetime Emmy Award, Tony Award, British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Having starred in over 80 film and television productions during his 50-year career, he is also known for numerous stage productions on Broadway and Off-Broadway. AllMovie historian Hal Erickson characterized Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances." Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012.

American - Actor | Born: November 15, 1940

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I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

Sam Waterston

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Sam Waterston

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Sam Waterston

I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

Sam Waterston

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

Sam Waterston

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

Sam Waterston

I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

Sam Waterston

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Sam Waterston

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

Sam Waterston

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

Sam Waterston

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Sam Waterston

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Sam Waterston

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

Sam Waterston

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

Sam Waterston

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Sam Waterston

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Sam Waterston

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

Sam Waterston

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

Sam Waterston

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

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

Sam Waterston

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

I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

Sam Waterston

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

Sam Waterston

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

Sam Waterston

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