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American actor
Peter Coyote is a versatile American actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator with an impressive filmography. He has lent his distinctive voice to various projects, including narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and winning an Emmy for his work on Ken Burns’s documentary series ‘The Roosevelts: An Intimate History’.
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About the Peter Coyote
Peter Coyoteis an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator of films, theater, television, and audiobooks. He worked on films, such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Bitter Moon (1992), Kika (1993), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002), and Femme Fatale (2002).
His voice work includes his narration for the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century (1992), winning an Emmy. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on Ken Burns’s documentary miniseries The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s, including the Summer of Love.
Frequently Asked Questions
Peter Coyote’s birth name is Robert Peter Cohon.
Peter Coyote was born on October 10, 1941.
Peter Coyote has appeared in films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Cross Creek, Jagged Edge, Bitter Moon, Kika, Patch Adams, Erin Brockovich, A Walk to Remember, and Femme Fatale.
Peter Coyote has done extensive voice work, including narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and winning an Emmy for his narration of the PBS series ‘The Pacific Century’.
Peter Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s, including the Summer of Love.
Peter Coyote won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on Ken Burns’s documentary miniseries ‘The Roosevelts: An Intimate History’.
Peter Coyote has worked in films, theater, television, and audiobooks, showcasing his talent and versatility as an actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator.
14 Quotes by Peter Coyote
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Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can’t have a healthy economy, you can’t have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
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The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
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You don’t see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they’re doing, by doing it.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
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I think it’s good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you’ve gone too far.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
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Any political agenda and organization which doesn’t begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It’s just not going to succeed.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
- 6.
It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
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Money is a way of creating scarcity.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
- 8.
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
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I think the ’60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
- 10.
Interdependence is a fact, it’s not an opinion.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
- 11.
I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
- 12.
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
- 13.
The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director
- 14.
I got out of college and I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor’s Workshop, being abused as a intern.
Peter CoyoteAmerican actor, voice actor, and director