Riegert Peter Quotes & Sayings

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket. — Robin McKinley

I felt determined and strong, but sick and weak all at once. — Paige Harbison

I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they're not even thinking of that audience. — Peter Riegert

What does not yet exist cannot now be known. The future is imagined by each man for himself and this process of the imagination is a vital part of the process of decision. But it does not make the future known. The absolute and eternal difference between the recorded past and the unformed future, despite its overwhelming significance for the very stuff of human existence, has been often overlooked in our economic theories. — G.L.S. Shackle

How could you leave me behind to explode?"
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"Oh--you have a clockwork cat. This is very nice. I will forgive you if I may pet the cat. — Steven Harper Piziks

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best. — Peter Riegert

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. — Jack Kerouac

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

I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar. — Peter Riegert

Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask. — Peter Riegert

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process. — Peter Riegert

There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current. — Peter Riegert

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

In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing. — Peter Riegert

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature. — Peter Riegert

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with. — Peter Riegert

People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection. — Robert Cormier

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.' — Peter Riegert

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers - ambition and indigestion. — Herman Melville

There are times when you have to fight for something you believe in, that you love. — Peter Riegert

Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be. — Peter Riegert

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation. — Ramakrishna

You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.' — Peter Riegert

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character. — Peter Riegert

I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn't go to the movies. — Peter Riegert

We are innate storytellers: the richer the characters, the stickier the story. — Ben Tolosa

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come. — Peter Riegert

His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. They were an ocean of betrayal. They probed her, searching for the smallest sign that she didn't mean it. That spark of hope that never seemed to go out. — Aprilynne Pike

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible. — Peter Riegert

There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness? — Peter Riegert

I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work. — Peter Riegert

It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems. — Peter Riegert

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it. — Wilhelm Steinitz

It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me. — Peter Riegert

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality. — Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew. — Peter Riegert

I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go. — Peter Riegert