Quotes from Amanda Peet

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.

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.

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.

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

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.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious.

When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

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.

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.

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.

I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.

I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

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.

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

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.

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.

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

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.