Sam Waterston Quotes
Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... It definitely helped me more than hurt me.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.
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I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
