Peter Jacobson Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.