Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audiobooks. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad Retina Display campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. His distinctive voice helped him win a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 1992 for narration of "The Meiji Revolution" episode of the PBS series The Pacific Century, as well as a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 October 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
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.
My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.
We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community they emerged out of, not some superstars. We had multiple stages, diversions, communal entertainment. There is something slightly fascistic about sitting in a huge auditorium focusing all the energy on one group far away on stage.
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.
Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.
Money is a way of creating scarcity.
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
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.
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.