Peter Jacobson Quotes & Sayings

I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews. — Peter Jacobson

I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero. — Peter Jacobson

I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me. — Peter Jacobson

I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people. — Peter Jacobson

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair. — Peter Jacobson

Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director. — Peter Jacobson

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it. — Peter Jacobson

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

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

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me. — Peter Jacobson

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

Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes ... yet. — Peter Jacobson

Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school. — Peter Jacobson

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

I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character. — Peter Jacobson

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

I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan. — Peter Jacobson

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

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

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction. — Peter Jacobson

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

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

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

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that. — Peter Jacobson

It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is. — Peter Jacobson

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit. — Peter Jacobson

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

Woody Allen, that was a dream come true, although I never really talked to him. Auditioning was fun, because you don't really hear much about the script. They just said, "They want a Woody Allen type," so of course I got the call. — Peter Jacobson

Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly ... " — Peter Jacobson

Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God! — Peter Jacobson

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

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

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

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about. — Peter Jacobson

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

I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious. — Peter Jacobson

I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie. — Peter Jacobson

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

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

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

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

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do! — Peter Jacobson

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

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

I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan. — Peter Jacobson

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

I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake! — Peter Jacobson

If it's a good role, I'm happy to play it. — Peter Jacobson

I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool. — Peter Jacobson

I guess actors don't like to direct each other. — Peter Jacobson

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head. — Peter Jacobson