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I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work.

I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Peter Riegert

I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.

Peter Riegert

There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?

Peter Riegert

I did 'Animal House' in 1978, then 'Local Hero' in 1983, and then in '88, 'Crossing Delancey.' And I realized that every three to five years, you need a big role to put you into the national psyche.

Peter Riegert

I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they're not even thinking of that audience.

Peter Riegert

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Peter Riegert

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

Peter Riegert

I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work.

Peter Riegert

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

Peter Riegert

I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.

Peter Riegert

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

Peter Riegert

Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be.

Peter Riegert

Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

Peter Riegert

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

Peter Riegert