Words matter. These are the best Ron Livingston Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it’s a little backward.
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.
The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.
We don’t plan to be good or bad. We just think, ‘What do I want now? I want coffee now. I want the paper now.’
If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody’s guess.
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.
There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.
Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
I don’t think a lot of people gave ‘Beavis & Butt-Head’ credit for how subtle it could be.
I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.
There’s jerks, and there’s villains. Villains, I think, are very aware of who they are and what they’re doing and their effect on the world. Jerks tend to think they’re great guys.
I saw ‘The Shining’ really young. I don’t think it scarred me, but I had a paper route, and I delivered to some apartment buildings, and it made it a little scary to walk down those hallways.
I’d say 50 on men is like 33 on women in Hollywood. The standards – it’s just the way we do our storytelling. And I hope it will change, because I think it’s dumb.
Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It’s a little bit like you block the move.
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.
In college, I actually did some work on a documentary project talking to Vietnam vets about the images of war and how it changed. When they grew up, it was like ‘Sands of Iwo Jima’ and there was this, you know – after Vietnam, there was a whole different way of looking at war.
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don’t think he is not capable of hurting you.
I’m definitely guilty of turning tail and running in places in my life. It’s the lack of courage, really.
In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.
It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something’s up, maybe you gotta take a look.
Good actors, you always know what they’re thinking. That’s why they’re good actors.
I think there is sort of a disconnect in this country between people that served in the military, understand the culture of it and what it is, and the people who only know what they see on the news and read – and they don’t really get a feel for the culture.
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!
If I’m in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.
In corporate levels, it’s all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?
My main position on karaoke is just say no. I also think there should be a cut-off level where, once you reach a certain amount of talent or ability, you shouldn’t be allowed to do karaoke anymore. Go get a band and actually do that. There’s no need to show everybody else up.
It’s always interesting when people are sort of broken. I think it’s one of the most interesting qualities that human beings have is that broken people can fix themselves sometimes.
I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.
The funny thing about ‘Office Space’ is I almost never get my lines quoted back to me.
I don’t always get to do a lot of bad guys.
My favorite characters that I’ve gotten to do are the ones that surprised me the most.
If you’re a real scientist, you’re constantly open to new data. Nothing is ever 100% validated.
I grew up in Iowa, so we had Cheap Trick come through a lot, but some of the other acts were a little harder to find.
I’m a fan of ‘Family Guy,’ and I like watching the show.
‘Rocky’ I tend to watch through to the end every time.
People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody’s telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth – or some version of it.
A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn’t end. There’s other ways to make money, better jobs.
I say the one thing about luck is you can’t really count on it.
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.
