Peter Weller Quotes

• The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.

  Peter Weller

  Sweet, Smell, Goal

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• My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

  Peter Weller

  Careers, Risk, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

  Peter Weller

  Hero, Humanity

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Art has absolutely changed my life.

  Peter Weller

  Art, Changed, Changed My Life

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• If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

  Peter Weller

  Prayer, Kids, Bottom

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

  Peter Weller

  People, Popcorn, Eating

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

  Peter Weller

  Real, Grateful, Being Real

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• A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

  Peter Weller

  Fuzzy, Wells, Warm And Fuzzy

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• There is a good news and bad news about a remake. When you remake something, if you futz with the theme, you are in danger. Because people get it - they get the theme. They know what is galvanizing, what is energizing.

  Peter Weller

  People, Danger

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Miles Davis, my one and only real hero of my life. I met him [because] every time I had a movie interview, I would shift the conversation to jazz. Miles, when I finally met him, he knew he had a sucker walking in the door. Because his people told him, “This guy plays the trumpet and every freakin’ interview he has ever given, he’s talked about you.”

  Peter Weller

  Real, Hero, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

  Peter Weller

  School, Jazz, I Realized

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if you cease to teach cursive writing, how does one know how to, I don’t know, replicate the Declaration of Independence? Or the orations of Cicero? Is it just going to be on the internet?

  Peter Weller

  Writing, People, Independence

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

  Peter Weller

  Art, Teach

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when I do them, it does puts me back in touch with the people who go to movies. I do these shows just to stay in touch with them.

  Peter Weller

  People, Jazz, Good Things

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

  Peter Weller

  Sorry, Home, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

  Peter Weller

  Care, Scripts, Fantasy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

  Peter Weller

  Italian, Renaissance, Finishing

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• I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

  Peter Weller

  Tvs, Steers

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• When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

  Peter Weller

  Hate, Romance, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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