Peter Coyote

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

— Peter Coyote

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor…

— Peter Coyote

In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities…

— 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 you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any…

— 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…

— Peter Coyote

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

— Peter Coyote

Writing is something I can do by myself.

— Peter Coyote

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of…

— Peter Coyote

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make…

— Peter Coyote

Acting is the way I make my living.

— Peter Coyote

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

— Peter Coyote

My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked…

— 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…

— Peter Coyote

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a…

— Peter Coyote

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

— Peter Coyote

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign.…

— Peter Coyote

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

— 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…

— Peter Coyote

When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations…

— Peter Coyote

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

— Peter Coyote

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

— Peter Coyote

I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to…

— Peter Coyote

Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of…

— Peter Coyote

There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is,…

— Peter Coyote