About Sam Waterston:
Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston is an American actor, producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984), and his starring role as Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law & Order (1994-2010). He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Emmy awards, having starred in over eighty film and television productions during his fifty-year career. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances."
I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
Sam WaterstonI'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
Sam WaterstonIf you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Sam WaterstonObviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
Sam Waterston