Ron Livingston Quotes

I'm actually from Mt. Kisco, New York, which is in Westchester County, and when I auditioned for 'Dukes,' I told them I was from Snailville, Georgia, which doesn't exist, and I'd just graduated first in my class from the Georgia School of High Performance Driving, which also doesn't exist. But they bought it.

Even for a President who is not a professional actor, misrepresentation is a part of the job. Commentators who do not bear this in mind are like critics in the audience shouting, “Tell us what you really think” at an actor who is trying to bring off his drama.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I feel that I am a good actor.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

I want to show audiences I can act.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

terminological inexactitude

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.