I still consider myself a young actor, I'm 34; I still view it as the beginning of my career. You can get infatuated with acting in a way that makes you less an actor than an acting appreciator.
Peter SarsgaardIf all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
Peter SarsgaardWho would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.
Peter SarsgaardI don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
Peter SarsgaardFour 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.
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