Peter Sarsgaard Quotes

When people say, `The movie sucked, but you didn`t`; that means you didn`t swing hard enough. You bunted. If the movie goes down, I want to go down with it.

When you don`t have power, which I still don`t in the grand Hollywood scheme of things, you get offered things that you wouldn`t ordinarily be offered. Frequently, other people know what I can do more than I do.

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. - On his wide range of offbeat parts.

On his role as a marine in Jarhead: "There`s a quality my character has about not caving in to the physical or mental demands of your job. I really took that to heart. A lot of my relatives have served, and I have respect for what it means to be a soldier. These guys are carrying a very heavy burden. We joke about marines being strict and severe, but would you want a bunch of hippies running around with guns?"

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.