Waterston, Sam Filmography

• Anesthesia
  2014, role: actor , character name: Prof. Walter Zarrow
• Never the Same: The Prisoner-of-War Experience
  2013, role: actor , character name: General Beebe
• The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• The Path to Violence
  2013, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
  2013, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• And It Was Good
  2013, role: actor , character name: Doctor
• And It Was Good
  2013, role: actor , character name: Judge Alexander Baas
• Please Be Normal
  2013, role: actor , character name: Dad
• And It Was Good
  2013, role: actor , character name: Gravedigger
• Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray
  2011, role: actor , character name: Abraham Lincoln
• Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• President Lincoln's Inauguration Re-enactment
  2011, role: actor
• The Last Boat Out
  2010, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 61st Annual Tony Awards
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter: Best Revival of a Play
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 100 Greatest War Films
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Hammer and Cycle
  2004, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - as Abraham Lincoln
• 101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Le divorce
  2003, role: actor , character name: Chester Walker
• The Commission
  2003, role: actor , character name: J. Lee Rankin
• Restore America Honors
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Matthew Shepard Story
  2002, role: actor , character name: Dennis Shepard
• Echoes from the White House
  2001, role: actor
• A House Divided
  2000, role: actor , character name: David Dickson
• A House Divided
  2000, role: producer
• In Bad Taste
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• The Unfinished Journey
  1999, role: actor , character name: Narration
• Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
  1999, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Miracle at Midnight
  1998, role: actor , character name: Dr. Karl Koster
• 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Exiled
  1998, role: actor , character name: Jack McCoy
• Shadow Conspiracy
  1997, role: actor , character name: The President
• The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
  1997, role: actor , character name: Thomas Jefferson
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Liv Ullmann scener fra et liv
  1997, role: actor
• Thomas Jefferson
  1997, role: actor , character name: Thomas Jefferson
• The Proprietor
  1996, role: actor , character name: Harry Bancroft
• The Journey of August King
  1995, role: producer
• The Journey of August King
  1995, role: actor , character name: Mooney Wright
• The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards
  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a TV-Series - Drama
• The Visionaries
  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host
• Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
  1994, role: actor , character name: Daniel Chamberlain
• A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre
  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• David's Mother
  1994, role: actor , character name: John Nils
• The Enemy Within
  1994, role: actor , character name: President William Foster

Famous quotes by Sam Waterston:

"Painting is very interesting."

"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."

"I think the bait for doing something really is always the part."

"If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like."

"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."

"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."

"I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent."

"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."

"If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln."

"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."

"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."

"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."

"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."

"As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one."

"The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure."

"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."

"I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest."

"Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too."

"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."