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Richard Schiff Biography

Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing 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." He is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World. He currently has a recurring role on the HBO series Ballers. In September 2017, he began appearing in a leading role in ABC's new primetime TV drama series The Good Doctor, as Dr. Glassman, president of a fictional teaching hospital in San Jose, California.

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I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that.

Believe, Forgotten, Lucky, Ones

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

Certain, Family, Missing, Throws, Together

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.

Block, Living, New York, Real, Thrilled

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

Big Movie, Focus, Months, Movie Star, Unless

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

Skull, Skulls, Thick, Wife, Years

I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.

Guy, Movies, People, Scare, Tough, Wanna

You had actors that came from live theatre and it felt like you're doing a play. Every time we did a three or four minute walk-and-talk in the West Wing, the exhilaration of going on stage would be a part of it.

Came, Felt, Like You, Theatre, Time, Wing

We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

Chips, Dream, Potatoes, Rest, Road, Sleep

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.

Audiences, Jersey, Stage, Tough, Underneath

I turned down a lot of things - some very lucrative - because I could afford to at that time. That didn't lead to a happy place. I was happy to spend time with my family, get to know my daughter, who was born during The West Wing.

Born, Daughter, Family, Happy Place, My Family, West

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.

Differences, Fighting, Fights, Frustration, Moving, Old

The political nonsense of network television and the culture of a set and all the problems that that can create, I can take. I can't take betraying the truth of what I'm doing. It cuts to the absolute core of everything that I do in the craft, in this world that I live in.

Culture, Cutting, Political, Set, Truth

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.

Badly, Challenges, Interesting, Ones, Roles, Story

Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.

Discipline, Energy, Learn, Morning, Potential, Work Out

I didn't expect NBC would be at all thrilled about me, because the year before the West Wing I had rejected a pilot at the last minute and got them very upset. I ended up not coming to the casting - in fact it happened four different times because I just wasn't convinced that I wanted to do television.

Different, Ended, Nbc, Rejected, Upset, West

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Lucky, Roles, Turned, Turned Down

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

Bones, Experience, Genetic, Memories, Memory, Thinking

I go in to Warner Brothers to test and in the waiting area I saw Allison Janney sitting there, who I did not know but I was a big fan of. I said to myself, "Wait a second. These guys might know what they're doing if they're hiring her. "

Brother, Fan, Guy, Said, Sitting, Waiting

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

Happen, Measure, Reactions, Sometimes, Tough

My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.

Beautiful, British, Cold, Long, Rainy Day

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