Ron Livingston Quotes

• They’re either going to fire you or they’re not. They can only fire you. That’s all they can do. They can’t take your thumbs.

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fire

• 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.

  Ron Livingston

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  Tags in Angle, Just

• 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.

  Ron Livingston

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  Tags in Look, Day

• 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!

  Ron Livingston

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  Tags in Powerful, Happy, Problem, Really

• Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don’t think he is not capable of hurting you.

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Think, Like

• It’s kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

  Ron Livingston

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  Tags in People, Really, Cool

• It’s got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

  Ron Livingston

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  Tags in Creative, Idea

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

  Ron Livingston

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  Tags in Think, Look

• In corporate levels, it’s all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Week, Corporate

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

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guess, Happen, Things

• If I’m in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Like, Something

• I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry, People

• I don’t always get to do a lot of bad guys.

  Ron Livingston

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• Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

  Ron Livingston

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  Tags in Happen, Talent

• Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It’s a little bit like you block the move.

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Like, Little

• A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn’t end. There’s other ways to make money, better jobs.

  Ron Livingston

  Topics in Work

Ron Livingston (17)

Birth:	5th June, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Ronald Joseph "Ron" Livingston is an American film and television actor. His roles include a disaffected corporate employee in the film Office Space, a sardonic writer in a short-term relationship with Carrie Bradshaw in the TV show Sex and the City, and Captain Lewis Nixon in the miniseries Band of Brothers.

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