Ron Livingston Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

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

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

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

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

I have to be the bad guy to Alec Baldwin, who is pretty bad himself in this movie.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it. Then what good is it?

I was just thinking, what kind of advice would I give a writer, not being a writer?

I won't be naming names, but there are a couple of guys I know-I sort of combined them together to come up with his basic thing.

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

I'm an actor. I don't know what's going to happen next month, let alone next year.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

Little Black Book is about what happens after two people wake up, see each other the next morning and go, OK, what the hell did I get myself into?

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!

The old way of thinking is, you get a job out of school and you're still with the company and you're loyal to them and they take care of you.

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.

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.

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.

Trivia

Ron was one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive, 2006. He is found in the "Sexy at every age, Age 39"

(1993) He moved to Los Angeles.

He appeared in The Making of Band of Brothers (2001)

He was directed by

In 1992, he made his film debut in a small role in Straight Talk (1992) directed by

He performed at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where he also started his career.

He directed

He won a Golden Globe Award in the category "Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Movie" in 2002 for his role on "

His father was an aerospace engineer and his mother a Lutheran minister.

His height is 5' 10?" (1.79 m)

In 2001 Livingston starred as Captain Lewis Nixon in HBO's "

He was engaged to actress