Amanda Peet Quotes

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

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• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Think

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Small
  • Travel
  • Summer

• When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

  

  Major Owens
  • Education
  • Respect
  • Technology

• I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Great
  • Help
  • Think

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Good
  • Television

• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Career

• Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Human
  • Destiny
  • Patterns

• What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Father
  • Want
  • Working

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• The Tamil industry, while being better than all the other film industries when it comes to treating female actors, is still dominated by men. So, I can only work within the space offered to heroines, and I think I am doing that.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Work
  • Men
  • Space

• I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'

  

  Iman
  • Friends
  • Change
  • Destiny

• We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Rock

• I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Technology
  • Experiments
  • Concepts

• It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.'

  

  Doug Flutie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different.

  

  Jane Levy
  • Great
  • Different
  • Friends

• I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it's a dream for me.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Dream
  • Interest
  • Given

• Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

  

  Amanda Peet