Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiffis an American actor and comedian. He played Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode entitled "Talking Points."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth27 May 1955
CityBethesda, MD
CountryUnited States of America
suit suppress
I'm not accusing Warner Bros. of suppressing Toby in any way, shape, or form, ... It's not some suit at Warner Bros. that goes, 'That Toby, we've got to suppress him.' I know it sounded like that, but it's not what I mean, and that's stupid.
comfort fights good love move past peace realm spark
I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.
pressure relieve
There is pressure to relieve him of his voice,
conscience dynamic pressure relieve somewhat
who is somewhat conscience-driven and dynamic in his opinions. There is pressure to relieve him of his voice.
years play our-generation
I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
couple dancer watches
Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.
war iraq america
It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.
kings america long
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
roles lucky turned-down
I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.
new-york block real
I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.
jersey tough stage
It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.
people guy scare
I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.
interesting challenges stories
Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.
carry few personal rest treasures
There are very few personal treasures that you put in your knapsack to carry with you for the rest of your life, and he's one of those.