Peter Riegert Quotes

I did 'Animal House' in 1978, then 'Local Hero' in 1983, and then in '88, 'Crossing Delancey.' And I realized that every three to five years, you need a big role to put you into the national psyche.

Peter Riegert

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Wife

• I grew up with all kinds of people.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Up
  • Kinds

• The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Think
  • Like
  • Bike

• I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Never
  • Race
  • Club

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• 'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Brave
  • Role

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Greek

• The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Why
  • Question
  • See

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

  

  Earl Browder
  • History
  • System
  • Socialism

• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Goals
  • Down

• I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Taken

• Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.

  

  Beck
  • House
  • Free
  • Rip

• My cousin came over to my house one day just to fool around and we said - he said, some day we should start a rock n' roll group. We could all get together. And I said, I know I guy named Al Jardine who plays bass and could probably sing good. You know. So we went from there.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Good
  • Together
  • Guy

• I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

  

  Joe Jonas DNCE
  • Work
  • House
  • Awesome

• I did 'Animal House' in 1978, then 'Local Hero' in 1983, and then in '88, 'Crossing Delancey.' And I realized that every three to five years, you need a big role to put you into the national psyche.

  

  Peter Riegert
  • House
  • Animal
  • Hero