Quotes from Ron Livingston

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.

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

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

The first film where I had a speaking role was 'The Low Life,' but I did appear for about three seconds in 'Straight Talk' with Dolly Parton and James Woods. I had a line, and it was cut. It was alright: I got my AEU card anyway.

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.

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

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.

We're all trying to live up to our personal codes, so we relate to people who we see doing the same thing.

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

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.

I personally feel like an exorcism movie without God is like a western without hats. Sure, you can do it, but why would you try?

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 kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

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.

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'm definitely guilty of turning tail and running in places in my life. It's the lack of courage, really.

I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.

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.

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.

The funny thing about 'Office Space' is I almost never get my lines quoted back to me.

I don't think a lot of people gave 'Beavis & Butt-Head' credit for how subtle it could be.

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.

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.

Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.