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Ocupation: Actor

Life: b. May 27, 1955

Birthday: May 27

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

Topics: Family, Missing, Together, Missing It

quote families are like puzzles they fit together in a certain way and if one piece is missing richard schiff Quotes

We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Dream, Sleep, Too Late, Potato Chips, Instant Gratification

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.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Years, Play, Our Generation, Great Film

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Couple, Dancer, Watches

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mean, Actors, Als, Murphy

It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: War, Iran, Korea, Doldrums

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Kings, America, Long, Bobby Kennedy

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.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Moving, Fighting, Frustration, Love My Wife, I Love My Wife

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Roles, Lucky, Turned Down

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Two, Way, Shooting

My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.

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Topics: Beautiful, Rainy Day, Long, Cloudy Day

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Tough, Sometimes, Reactions

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Years, Skulls, Wife

I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: New York, Block, Real

I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Believe, Lucky, Forgotten

It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Jersey, Tough, Stage, Wintertime

I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Hate, America, People, Preamble, Pillaging

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

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: People, Guy, Scare

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.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Interesting, Challenges, Actors

Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.

source: - Source: www.fanbolt.com

Topics: Morning, Work Out, Discipline

I had been used to improvising and even in the audition I was feeling free to rearrange Aaron Sorkin words a little bit, as lovely as they were. I didn't find out until after I got the part how furious Aaron was at me for doing that. They said, "He was livid. He did everything in his power not to jump down your throat!" But I came to realise that Aaron was writing in metre and the rhythm of the language is very important.

source: - "The Definitive History Of The West Wing: Part 2. Inauguration". www.empireonline.com.

Topics: Writing, Feelings, Lovely

My parents grew up in the Depression. Despite the success that they both had in their lives, there's a certain mentality that tells you to finish all the food that's on your plate and not wasting anything and appreciating what's on the table.

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Topics: Appreciate, Parent, Mentality

The political nonsense of network television and the culture of a set and all the problems that that can create, I can take. I can't take betraying the truth of what I'm doing. It cuts to the absolute core of everything that I do in the craft, in this world that I live in.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Cutting, Political, Culture

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Focus, Big Movie, Movie Star

Playing a TV character for seven years is almost like when you do a play. You live, breathe, and everything else with that character 24-7 for six months or four months or whatever, and that gets very deep in your blood. When you do a TV character for seven years, that's a long time. It becomes a seminal era in your life.

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Topics: Character, Long, Breathe

I still have the mentality of someone who doesn't know where he's going to sleep and doesn't know if he has enough money for gas to get to the next job interview. I don't think that mentality ever leaves, you know?

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Topics: Job Interview

I turned down a lot of things - some very lucrative - because I could afford to at that time. That didn't lead to a happy place. I was happy to spend time with my family, get to know my daughter, who was born during The West Wing.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Happy Place

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