Top 39 Quotes by Peter Coyote

About Peter Coyote

These are some quotes by American author Peter Coyote Actor, who was born on October 10, 1941.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Peter Coyote

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

Peter Coyote

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.

Peter Coyote

Acting is the way I make my living.

Acting is the way I make my living.

Peter Coyote

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Peter Coyote

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

Peter Coyote

In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Peter Coyote

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

Peter Coyote

We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.

Peter Coyote

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

Peter Coyote

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