Ronald Joseph "Ron" Livingston is an American actor. His early roles in Office Space and the miniseries Band of Brothers have been noted as two of his best-known.
John Livingston, Jennifer Livingston, Nick Livingston
Nicknames
Ronald Joseph Livingston , Ron , Ronald Joseph "Ron" Livingston
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2002), Fright Meter Awards for Best Supporting Actor (2013), Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2014)
Movies
“Band of Brothers” (2001), "Office Space", “Straight Talk” (1992), “The Low Life” (1995), “Swingers” (1996)
TV Shows
“Sex and the City” (2002-2003), "American Dad!" (2005-2007), "Standoff" (2006-2007), “Defying Gravity” (2009), "Boardwalk Empire" (2013)
Star Sign
Gemini
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In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?
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My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.
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The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.
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There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.
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It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.
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It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.
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It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.
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They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.
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An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.
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Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.
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I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.
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I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.
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I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.
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I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.
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Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
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A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.
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Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.
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Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
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Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.
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It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
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If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
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Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
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If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.
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Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
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(on why he moved to Chicago to pursue an acting career) "It was within Greyhound striking distance of home. It was a good place to start out."
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Fact
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His 1st child, with wife Rosemarie DeWitt, was a daughter named Gracie James Livingston, born April 29, 2013.
Director Paul W.S. Anderson had wanted him to play the role of Goro in Mortal Kombat (1995), but the prosthetics required to make him taller and add two arms were too expensive to justify.
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Got his start in Chicago where one of the theaters he performed, was at the Goodman Theatre.
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Mother is a Lutheran minister, father is an aerospace engineer.
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