Peter Stormare Quotes
I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.
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Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.
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I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
