76 Quotes by Ron Livingston

It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care

There's some [films] where I do a lot of homework and then there's some, where it's supposed to take you by surprise. So you kind of just want to get in there and have everything take you by surprise rather than just have him tell you how everything went down.

Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you have to find it a little bit and then kind of clump around and sniff it out.

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.

For the really scary stuff to work at the end you have to fall in love a little bit with the family and want then to be ok. And once you get the audience to buy in on that then they care. They want them to be okay.

It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something’s up, maybe you gotta take a look.

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 you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody’s guess.