Peter Riegert Quotes

I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Complete
  • Supreme

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• I love all things Christmas.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
  • Things
  • Christmas

• I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Game

• I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Thing

• Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Desire
  • Reflection
  • Forgiveness

• 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • War
  • Boy
  • Fire

• The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Truth
  • Energy

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Game
  • Death
  • Cure

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

• When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Problem

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Dead
  • Russia
  • Lived

• The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Gay

• I've got four women in my house - my wife and my three daughters - and I tell you what, it's pretty scary. I keep my head down and if we're out shopping I try and look in a man's shop while they make their minds up.

  

  Ian Holloway
  • Up
  • Women
  • Pretty

• I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • God
  • Myself
  • Islam

• In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Water
  • Dark
  • Forest

• As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Job
  • American

• I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

  

  Peter Riegert
  • Job