53 Quotes by Sam Waterston

Painting is very interesting.

I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great-it travelled into immediate communication.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.