Amanda Peet Quotes

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Amanda Peet

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 11, 1972

I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

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In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

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I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

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Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

Amanda Peet

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

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I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

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I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.

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The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

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If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

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Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

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When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

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I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

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My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.

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If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy.

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I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.

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There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

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I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

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I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

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He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

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If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

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