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Top 25 Sam Waterston Quotes (2025 Update)

Sam Waterston Quote: “If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling back.”

1. “If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling back.”

— Sam Waterston

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Sam Waterston Quote: “I’m too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.”

2. “I’m too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “Separation is painful, and there’s such a thing as doing it too much – the limits are how much it hurts.”

3. “Separation is painful, and there’s such a thing as doing it too much – the limits are how much it hurts.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.”

4. “There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I don’t like driving much.”

5. “I don’t like driving much.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I think people have some control over what they want; there’s a relationship – maybe not automatic – between what you want and get.”

6. “I think people have some control over what they want; there’s a relationship – maybe not automatic – between what you want and get.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don’t inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it’s the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.”

7. “I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don’t inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it’s the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “If you’re going to be born ugly and be an actor – the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.”

8. “If you’re going to be born ugly and be an actor – the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.”

9. “I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.”

10. “I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “The Killing Fields, my character’s teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.”

11. “The Killing Fields, my character’s teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “If there’s any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it’s show business. You can plan and plan, but it’s what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.”

12. “If there’s any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it’s show business. You can plan and plan, but it’s what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “We’re paid to care. That’s what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That’s what we’re trying for.”

13. “We’re paid to care. That’s what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That’s what we’re trying for.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “Good directors say, Here’s where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.”

14. “Good directors say, Here’s where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “That’s where I’d like to be: when the business says here’s a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.”

15. “That’s where I’d like to be: when the business says here’s a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “Obviously the first roles that you’re proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.”

16. “Obviously the first roles that you’re proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “As for lawyers, it’s more fun to play one than to be one.”

17. “As for lawyers, it’s more fun to play one than to be one.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.”

18. “I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “If I have to be typecast, I’d like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.”

19. “If I have to be typecast, I’d like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “Painting is very interesting.”

20. “Painting is very interesting.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I’m sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don’t watch a whole lot of TV.”

21. “I’m sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don’t watch a whole lot of TV.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I’ve always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn’t. So even when I was broke, my career didn’t lack for interest.”

22. “I’ve always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn’t. So even when I was broke, my career didn’t lack for interest.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.”

23. “Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I’ve been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.”

24. “I’ve been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.”

25. “The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I don’t think there’s anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.”

26. “I don’t think there’s anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.”

27. “I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.”

— Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston Quote: “In reality, conclusions are muddy, there are no final curtains, and life just goes on.”

28. “In reality, conclusions are muddy, there are no final curtains, and life just goes on.”

— Sam Waterston

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