Ron Livingston famous quotes

03-28-2025

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
-- Ron Livingston

#Hurt #Kings #Thinking
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
-- Ron Livingston

#Office Space #Eight #Boss
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
-- Ron Livingston

#Jobs #Work #Fire
Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.
-- Ron Livingston

#Thinking #Actors #Knows
Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
-- Ron Livingston

#Thinking #Would Be #Actors
If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
-- Ron Livingston

#Running #Play #Long
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care
-- Ron Livingston

#Office Space #Lazy #Care
It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.
-- Ron Livingston

#Ideas #Office #Creative
I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.
-- Ron Livingston

#Boys #Band #Boy Bands
It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.
-- Ron Livingston

#Real #Fighting #People
When people get in trouble with addiction, it's because they're holding themselves to too high a standard and because they're not meeting it, they have to punish themselves, and it turns into this cycle of failing and falling lower and lower.
-- Ron Livingston

#Fall #People #Addiction
It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.
-- Ron Livingston

#Thinking #Looks #Causes
I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.
-- Ron Livingston

#Guy #Bad Guys
Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.
-- Ron Livingston

#Country #Sex #Cities
Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.
-- Ron Livingston

#Block #Moving #Littles
I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.
-- Ron Livingston

#People #Worry #Larry
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
-- Ron Livingston

#Powerful #Ideas #People
In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?
-- Ron Livingston

#Tennis #Watches #Levels
If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.
-- Ron Livingston

#People #Trying #Lines
A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.
-- Ron Livingston

#Nice #Guy #Done
Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
-- Ron Livingston

#Waiting #Eric #Talent
I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.
-- Ron Livingston

#Luck #One Thing
My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.
-- Ron Livingston

#Girl #Mother #Jobs
For the really scary stuff to work at the end you have to fall in love a little bit with the family and want then to be ok. And once you get the audience to buy in on that then they care. They want them to be okay.
-- Ron Livingston

#Falling In Love #Scary #Care
Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you have to find it a little bit and then kind of clump around and sniff it out.
-- Ron Livingston

#Realization #Littles #Directors

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