Amanda Peet Quotes

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Superman is the hardest character to draw. There are a couple of things that make him difficult. He's got a very simple costume and doesn't have the long cape like Batman. He's not a character that is necessarily always in shadow, and he doesn't have a mask.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.