Ron Livingston

“I grew up in Iowa, so we had Cheap Trick come through a lot, but some of the other acts were a little harder to find.”

“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!”

“There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.”

“In college, I actually did some work on a documentary project talking to Vietnam vets about the images of war and how it changed. When they grew up, it was like 'Sands of Iwo Jima' and there was this, you know - after Vietnam, there was a whole different way of looking at war.”

“I think there is sort of a disconnect in this country between people that served in the military, understand the culture of it and what it is, and the people who only know what they see on the news and read - and they don't really get a feel for the culture.”

“The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.”

“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.”

“We don't plan to be good or bad. We just think, 'What do I want now? I want coffee now. I want the paper now.'”

“We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.”

“If you're a real scientist, you're constantly open to new data. Nothing is ever 100% validated.”

“My favorite characters that I've gotten to do are the ones that surprised me the most.”

“I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.”

“An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.”

“If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.”

“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.”

“In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.”

“I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.”

“Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.”

“Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.”

“It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.”