Quotes from Peter Sarsgaard

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.