Peter Jacobson
Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.Collection: Sports
Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.Collection: Government
Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.Collection: Thinking
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.Collection: Directors
Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.Collection: Energy
Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.Collection: Smart
I guess actors don't like to direct each other.Collection: Actors
Woody Allen, that was a dream come true, although I never really talked to him. Auditioning was fun, because you don't really hear much about the script. They just said, "They want a Woody Allen type," so of course I got the call.Collection: Dream
I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.Collection: Sports
I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie.Collection: Doctors
I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.Collection: Real
Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God!Collection: Swear To God
Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.Collection: Fun
I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.Collection: Tables
Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.Collection: Space
You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.Collection: Writing
Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.Collection: Thinking
I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews.Collection: Play
Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes... yet.Collection: Lucky
I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!Collection: Real
My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.Collection: Father
I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.Collection: Pairs
I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero.Collection: Superhero
I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious.Collection: School
I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.Collection: Soccer
I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.Collection: Strong
I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake!Collection: School
I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.Collection: Thinking
Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..."Collection: War
It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.Collection: Fun
I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool.Collection: School
I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.Collection: Memorable
It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.Collection: Stress
Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school.Collection: New York
In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying to know, but I just don't ask. If it's something that I think will really affect how I play it and it's information I need to know, than I'll ask, for sure.Collection: Thinking
I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.Collection: Fun
People would stop me in the street - my demographic tends to be the elderly Jewish women from Miami; I think they tend to fancy me as someone that would've been good with their daughter or something - and a lot of them will do the wrist-slapping thing. "Oh, you're a terrible man! Just terrible!" And I'm, like, "Well, it's just a show. I'm just playing a character."Collection: Daughter
If you do an episode about something like transverse myelitis, it's a real disease that's out there, there are a lot of people that have it, and it's hard to get funding for them because people don't know about it. There are actually a lot of doctors that don't know about it. But if you do an episode of House, all of a sudden 15 million people are hearing the words, and it's an opportunity.Collection: Real
Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.Collection: Hands
I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.Collection: New York
I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.Collection: Doctors
When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.Collection: Years
Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.Collection: Intimidation
We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.Collection: Jesus
Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.Collection: Interesting
If it's a good role, I'm happy to play it.Collection: Play
Of course, on every job there are moments where you're not having fun.Collection: Jobs
I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.Collection: Thinking
I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.Collection: Thinking
I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately.Collection: Mean