Amanda Peet
Amanda Peet
Amanda Peetis an American actress and author who has appeared in film, stage, and television. After studying with Uta Hagen at Columbia University, Peet began her career in television commercials, and progressed to small roles on television, before making her film debut in 1995. Featured roles in the 2000 comedy film The Whole Nine Yards brought her wider recognition...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth11 January 1972
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for good writing. It wasn't the part that attracted me to it; it was just to be able to work with them. And the fact that she's this kind of, like, loose cannon and this kind of desperate 40-year-old is just the icing on the cake.
I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff.
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
My agent was like, 'Oh my God, you're going to love her,'
I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious.
I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.
I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.
Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.
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.
When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.
I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.
I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!
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.
When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.