Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard
John Peter Sarsgaardis an American actor. He landed his first feature role in the movie Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask, playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in Boys Don't Cryas John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 March 1971
CityScott Air Force Base, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.
The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.
You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.
I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.
I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.
If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.