32 Quotes by Richard Schiff

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

There are very few personal treasures that you put in your knapsack to carry with you for the rest of your life, and he's one of those.

I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.

who is somewhat conscience-driven and dynamic in his opinions. There is pressure to relieve him of his voice.

There is pressure to relieve him of his voice,

I'm not accusing Warner Bros. of suppressing Toby in any way, shape, or form, ... It's not some suit at Warner Bros. that goes, 'That Toby, we've got to suppress him.' I know it sounded like that, but it's not what I mean, and that's stupid.

I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.