38+ Amanda Peet Quotes On Friendship, Beauty And Seinfeld

Amanda Peet is an American actress who has appeared in a variety of films and television shows. She is best known for her roles in the films The Whole Nine Yards, Something's Gotta Give, and 2012. She has also had recurring roles on the television shows Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Togetherness. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Amanda Peet on love, friendship, life.

Top 10 Amanda Peet Quotes

1. I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.
2. If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.
3. Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.
4. I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!
5. There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
6. I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. I definitely believe in a lot of chemistry and lust at first sight. I think that love is something that takes work.
7. You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting
8. The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
9. I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.
10. I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

Amanda Peet Short Quotes

• When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.
• I would do a musical, but I can't sing.
• As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
• I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

Amanda Peet Quotes About Love

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous. — Amanda Peet

Although arguably, it's my job to dig deep whether I'm improvising or not. It's just their style. That's the way they feel like they get what they want. I mean, they're really good storytellers, so I love being in their hands. — Amanda Peet

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack. — Amanda Peet

I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty. — Amanda Peet

Amanda Peet Famous Quotes And Sayings

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person. — Amanda Peet

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it. — Amanda Peet

I think network television is really hard because it has to sail right away. HBO's so much more nurturing, patient. They think it takes a while for a show to kind of congeal and figure out what its strong spots are. — Amanda Peet

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~ — Amanda Peet

Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written. — Amanda Peet

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't. — Amanda Peet

I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play and it came out really quickly. Eventually I got it, and I wrote a letter to Sarah Jessica Parker and she wanted to do it. So that's how it happened. — Amanda Peet

I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good. — Amanda Peet

I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think some of it is just kind of the shock of realizing that you're approaching middle age, or that you are middle-aged and kind of coming to terms with that in whatever incremental ways. — Amanda Peet

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. — Amanda Peet

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that. — Amanda Peet

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. — Amanda Peet

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's. — Amanda Peet

They [Mark and Jay Duplass] both have young kids and talk about parenting all the time. So they get it. So they knew that it was a very delicate time and they knew that it was a lot. All it did was make me want to protect them from - and protect production from - any kind of burden. — Amanda Peet

They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband [Games Of Thrones creator David Benioff], which is that the difference between being a writer and not being a writer is finishing. — Amanda Peet

If you take "Cheers" and "Seinfeld" and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel. — Amanda Peet

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy. — Amanda Peet

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett. — Amanda Peet

I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor. — Amanda Peet

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon. — Amanda Peet

Life Lessons by Amanda Peet

1. Amanda Peet is an example of how hard work and dedication can lead to success. She has shown that it is possible to pursue multiple passions and still achieve success in each.
2. Her work demonstrates the importance of never giving up, even when faced with adversity. She has shown that it is possible to overcome obstacles and achieve one's goals.
3. Amanda Peet is an inspiration to many, demonstrating that with a positive attitude and a strong work ethic, anything is possible.