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.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

I believe that when youre wrong own it and apologize and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

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.

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.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

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.

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.

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.

Acting is the way I make my living.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

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.

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.

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

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.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

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.

My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

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.

I've always been a writer.

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.

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.