Waterston Quotes & Sayings

When you come from a family of actors, people in show business, they really know to celebrate good news and to celebrate it hard because it's not every day that you get it. — Katherine Waterston

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me. — Katherine Waterston

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

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

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

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre. — Katherine Waterston

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life. — Katherine Waterston

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

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything. — Katherine Waterston

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. — Katherine Waterston

I don't like driving much. — Sam Waterston

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

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

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

'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing! — Alex Pareene

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back. — Sam Waterston

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

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography. — Katherine Waterston

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor. — Bob 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 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 don't like to talk about things unless I have to. I don't like to talk a scene to death or overanalyze it, especially if I feel like I have some way in on my own. — Katherine 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

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

I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people. — Sam Waterston

We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes. — Bob Waterston

I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything. — Katherine Waterston

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

I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin. — Katherine 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

What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare. — Katherine Waterston

When we look at chimpanzees ... we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time. — Bob Waterston

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

In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be ... proceeding. — Sam Waterston

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

Painting is very interesting. — Sam Waterston

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know. — Katherine Waterston

I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.' — Katherine Waterston

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

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late. — Katherine 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

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

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

I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real. — Katherine Waterston

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

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out. — Katherine Waterston

In reality, conclusions are muddy, there are no final curtains, and life just goes on. — Sam Waterston

I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain. — Katherine Waterston

I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself. — Katherine Waterston