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Peter Vack

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[Wikipedia] Peter S. Brown, better known by his stage name Peter Vack, is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He portrayed Jason Strider in the MTV comedy series I Just Want My Pants Back (2011–2012), and Alex Merriweather in the Amazon Video comedy-drama series Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2015). V

Quotes by Peter Vack

I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class.…

Ballet

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I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what…

Childhood

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When you're watching yourself work, you're not really an audience member for yourself. Even being confronted by your own image can be…

Audience

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It's always nice to have a large role, but if it's a great small part, those can be so much fun. Size…

Fun

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My feeling was, "This is the future." And what's great about a place like Amazon is they really give the creators of…

Feelings

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If you're in something and you feel like it's not going well, what can you do about that? It's out of your…

Theatre

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You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

Acting

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When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can…

Crisis

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I did my friend's film - this guy Harrison Atkins who's a great filmmaker. He just makes movies with all his friends,…

Care

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Sometimes it's nice to think, "Oh, I can only do this one thing." Instead of feeling like, "I could theoretically, maybe, if…

Being successful

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When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them.…

Commit

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My parents are actually very hip. They're way hipper than me.

Parent

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My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind…

Blessing

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I've always known that I wanted to be an actor. My family kind of was a theatrically inclined family. My father came…

Couple

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I have done much more dramatic work than comedic work, but I think comedy is harder than drama in a way. I…

Comedic

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What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception…

Cinema

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I was really able to confirm something that I knew on some level before I'd made a film. The best actors know…

Cinema

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If you feel like you're working with good people, you give them your humanity and just let it happen.

Giving

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I think you should identify with your character, but plenty of people like themselves and hate themselves. You just have to find…

Character

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My philosophy is that if you're playing a moment truthfully, that it's a funny moment, then hopefully it will be funny. I…

Comedy

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Seeing a movie you're in is nothing like seeing a movie you're not in.

Movie

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I'm four and a half years older than my sister - it's an interesting age difference. Growing up it feels like a…

Age

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