American - Actor | October 10, 1941 -
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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The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
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I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
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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.
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The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
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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.
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Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
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My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
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The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.
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People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.
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My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.
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My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.
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