Peter Coyote Quotes

United States, Actor
October 10, 1941

Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audiobooks. He is known for performing in films including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002), Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) and Good Kill (2014). He was the "Voice of Oscar" for the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony, the first Oscars announcer to be seen on-camera.

Also known as Author, Director, Screenwriter

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

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Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

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- Time
- History
- House

Acting is the way I make my living.

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My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.

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- Guy
- Dad
My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

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- Nature
- House
- Garden
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.

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- Energy
- Hero
- Safety
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

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- People
- Good
- Value
I've always been a writer.

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One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.

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- Great
- Friends
- American
When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.

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- Up
- Children
- Kids
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

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My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

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The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

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- Hurt
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

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- Hero

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Peter Coyote