Judd Hirsch Quotes

Judd Hirsch — American Actor born on March 15, 1935,

Judd Seymore Hirsch is an American actor known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs. He is also well known for his roles in films such as Running on Empty, Independence Day, A Beautiful Mind, and Ordinary People, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, losing to his co-star, Timothy Hutton. He has also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and has twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play... (wikipedia)

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

Judd Hirsch Quotes

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