Sam Waterston Quotes
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Quotes to Explore
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I'm sure everybody in a family has a person in their family that has a problem ? drug related or whatever. He happens to be the one. It's just one of those things where when he hurts, I hurt.
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Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
