Ron Livingston

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.

I saw 'The Shining' really young. I don't think it scarred me, but I had a paper route, and I delivered to some apartment buildings, and it made it a little scary to walk down those hallways.

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

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

There's jerks, and there's villains. Villains, I think, are very aware of who they are and what they're doing and their effect on the world. Jerks tend to think they're great guys.

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.

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.

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

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

The scariest thing I've ever had about a long drive is almost falling asleep a couple of times. Those moments where you maybe should have pulled over and taken a nap, like, a couple of hours ago.

The first film where I had a speaking role was 'The Low Life,' but I did appear for about three seconds in 'Straight Talk' with Dolly Parton and James Woods. I had a line, and it was cut. It was alright: I got my AEU card anyway.

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