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. Richard Schiff More Quotes by Richard Schiff More Quotes From Richard Schiff Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. Richard Schiff family missing together Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch. Richard Schiff dancer couple watches 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. Richard Schiff kings long america 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. Richard Schiff happy-place my-family daughter 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. Richard Schiff dream sleep too-late 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. Richard Schiff our-generation play years I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors. Richard Schiff als actors mean 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. Richard Schiff breathe character long 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. Richard Schiff iran war america 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. Richard Schiff frustration fighting moving I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted. Richard Schiff turned-down roles lucky 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. Richard Schiff work-out discipline morning 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. Richard Schiff shooting two way 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. Richard Schiff rainy-day beautiful long Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure. Richard Schiff reactions tough sometimes 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. Richard Schiff big-movie movie-star focus 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. Richard Schiff wife skulls years 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. Richard Schiff block real new-york I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that. Richard Schiff lucky forgotten believe 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. Richard Schiff jersey tough stage
