Words matter. These are the best Peter Scolari Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
About a year after ‘Bosom Buddies,’ I was suddenly a regular on ‘Newhart,’ and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.’
I never drink alcohol.
It’s funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York’s Colonnades Theater Lab in the ’70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I’m still most at home in comedy.
Emmys are gorgeous and fun, but with or without them, there is beautiful work out there.
I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they’re character-building and they build perspective and talent.
One of the major demographic shares of people who watch ‘Girls’ are men in their fifties. Fathers watch it, maybe trying to figure out how to keep up with their 20-something daughters.
We all have an obligation as actors to be true to ourselves and our best instincts, but often there’s a higher purpose, which is to serve the text and, in the grander sense, serve the series, even if that means to fall on your sword and take the hit.
What I love about the way folks have interacted with me over the years is that they just want to make eye contact and for me to say something nice.
Like any other all-American boy, I wanted to be just thought of as popular, be well-liked, and meet a lot of cute girls.
If I took everything as personally as I possibly could, I wouldn’t survive.
I’ve done ‘The Love Boat’ twice. I had a great time, but my ego rails against it.
In a drama, you don’t make a fool of yourself.
My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.
I don’t like to just grab any ol’ role.
If we decline to become set in our ways, that’s good. But it doesn’t always feel good. It can be very challenging.
Never underestimate the value of someone who can say, ‘You make me sick.’
There was a TV special every year called ‘Circus of the Stars,’ and I did three consecutive ones – one as a juggler, one as a high-wire performer, and one as a high hand balance.
When people say, ‘I know you. What have I seen you in?’ I respond, ‘Well, it depends on how old you are.’
I’m a good juggler. If you want to court a woman, you need to be able to juggle five balls, fire, and knives.
Nothing’s hipper than leaving the set of ‘Girls’ in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show.
The first thing you have to get when you play somebody iconic is you have to get lucky. More than anything else, you have to make a leap of faith and know that somewhere, the net will appear, and you’ll find your way.
I used to make fun of those actors who talked about the theater as their temple and their place of worship. I’m not to that degree of zealotry or idolatry of theater as this holy place. But it’s a place where I get together with people who do what I do, and we understand each other in that respect.
I’m as proud of my work in ‘Madoff’ as anything I’ve ever done. Richard Dreyfuss turned in a bravura performance. It went unnoticed.
It’s more than sentimental for me to be working in theater in New York; it’s very personal. I think it’s a spiritual experience for me.
We have to accept the world as it is, not as we’d have it to be.
