I got out of college and I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor’s Workshop, being abused as a intern. – Peter Coyote
I believe that when you’re wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page. – Peter Coyote
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. – Peter Coyote
My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way. – Peter Coyote
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. – Peter Coyote
It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. – Peter Coyote
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. – Peter Coyote
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. – Peter Coyote
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. – Peter Coyote
I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something. – Peter Coyote
In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon. – Peter Coyote
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines. – Peter Coyote
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
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. – Peter Coyote
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. – Peter Coyote
Any political agenda and organization which doesn’t begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It’s just not going to succeed. – Peter Coyote
