Words matter. These are the best Peter Coyote Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
I think the ’60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
Any political agenda and organization which doesn’t begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It’s just not going to succeed.
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.
In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities connected to Texaco was brought forward at their stockholder meeting by Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the Amazon.
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.
When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children’s theater quite often – elaborate presentations of ‘Goldilocks’ and ‘Rapunzel’ for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can’t have a healthy economy, you can’t have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
The terrible thing about being an actor is that it’s not a solo occupation.
The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
When you break the rules and you win, you’re a hero; when you lose, you’re scurrilous.
There has to be that feeling in a good villain – that he’s awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
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.
Where I didn’t have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people’s needs, I did a lot of damage.
Interdependence is a fact, it’s not an opinion.
I am fascinated by women. They’re as close as we men get to experiencing ‘the other.’ The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
Acting is the way I make my living.
Writing is something I can do by myself.
I believe that when you’re wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
