I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.
Peter SarsgaardI always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
Peter SarsgaardWords are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.
Peter SarsgaardIt 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.
Peter SarsgaardDepending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.
Peter SarsgaardYou 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.
Peter Sarsgaard