Peter Riegert Quotes
In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
-
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
-
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
-
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
-
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
-
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
-
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
-
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
-
Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
-
I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
-
You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
-
I don't weigh into politics.
-
I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
-
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
-
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
-
I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
-
I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
-
I see myself as extremely lucky.
-
I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.
-
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
-
The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
-
I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.
-
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
-
In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.
