Ron Livingston Quotes

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.

There's some [films] where I do a lot of homework and then there's some, where it's supposed to take you by surprise. So you kind of just want to get in there and have everything take you by surprise rather than just have him tell you how everything went down.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care

For the really scary stuff to work at the end you have to fall in love a little bit with the family and want then to be ok. And once you get the audience to buy in on that then they care. They want them to be okay.

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.

Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you have to find it a little bit and then kind of clump around and sniff it out.