Peter Sarsgaard movie quotes

“Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring.”
Peter Sarsgaard

“You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Walter Duranty

“What is deranged, in a deranged world?”
Peter Sarsgaard - Walter Duranty

“I've done some psych experiments, but in my mind I'm still about to write my great Broadway musical.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“How do civilized human beings participate in destructive, inhumane acts? How was genocide implemented so systematically, so efficiently? And how did the perpetrators of these murders live with themselves?”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“- Stanley Milgram: It occurred to me, we choose our reality when we choose another person.
- Alexandra 'Sasha' Milgram: What does that mean? Marriage is not a fantasy.
- Stanley Milgram: No, no, no, right. Right. But it is a choice. You have to know that I choose you. Every day I choose you.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram
Winona Ryder - Alexandra 'Sasha' Milgram

“Human nature can be studied but not escaped, especially your own.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“- Gloria: You know what could've prevented all this, don't you?
- Charles 'Chuck' Lane: No, what?
- Gloria: Pictures. How could you make up characters if everyone you wrote about had to be photographed?”

Linda Smith - Gloria
Peter Sarsgaard - Charles 'Chuck' Lane

“The experiment taught me something about the plasticity of human nature. Not the evil, not the aggressiveness but a certain kind of malleability.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“What do you want me to do first, Hmm? Plan the funeral or pack the furniture?”

Peter Sarsgaard - Bobby Kennedy

“- Alan Troy: What's up with the make-up? I thought Texans were tough.
- Chris Kruger: I burn easily so fucking sue me.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Alan Troy
Lucas Black - Chris Kruger

I call this "the agentic state". The individual yields to authority, and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions.

Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“The experimenter told the subject to perform an action. What happened between the command and the outcome is the individual, with conscience and a will, who can either obey or disobey.”

Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“We are double in ourselves. What we believe we disbelieve, and we can not rid ourselves of what we condemn.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Maybe it's not necessarily justified, this common human complaint. The feeling that we're all cut off, alienated, and alone. I don't need to go into detail, do I?”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“If God didn't want them to be sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Bartholomew Bogue

“There are times when your life resembles a bad movie, but nothing prepares you if your life actually becomes a bad movie.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“I believe we are puppets with perception, with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings. And perhaps our awareness is the first step in our liberation.”

Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Do you ever feel invincible in one moment and then worthless the next?”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“- Father Bill Lombardy: Shit!
- Bobby Fischer: I didn't know a priest could use bad language. I like this guy!”

Peter Sarsgaard - Father Bill Lombardy
Tobey Maguire - Bobby Fisher

“- Whitey Bulger: Do you know what I do to rats?
- Brian Halloran: I had no choice.
- Whitey Bulger: You always had a choice. You just happen to make the wrong one.”

Johnny Depp - James 'Whitey' Bulger
Peter Sarsgaard - Brian Halloran

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“- Bobby Fischer: If I criticize a priest, will I go to hell?
- Father Bill Lombardy: Depends on if you believe in hell.”
Tobey Maguire - Bobby Fisher
Peter Sarsgaard - Father Bill Lombardy

“Why is defiance the anomaly instead of the norm?”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram