Amanda Peet quotes Her role in 'The Whole Nine Yards' (2000) Born: 01/11/1972 Country: usa

• He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous. (Amanda Peet) [thing/mind/remember/feeling]
• I would go to his trailer in the morning and knock on the door and say, "How do I deliver this line? How do I make it funny?" He would say, "Okay, honey, this is how you deliver that line." (Amanda Peet) [morning]
• Melinda is Radha Mitchell - the beautiful Radha Mitchell. I play Will Ferrell's wife in the movie. He has a crush on Radha and we don't have a very good marriage. (Amanda Peet) [willpower/wife/movie/marriage]
• Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. (Amanda Peet)
• The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up. (Amanda Peet) [thing/reading]
• 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. (Amanda Peet) [group/elite/age/people]
• 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. (Amanda Peet) [time/character]
• Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room. (Amanda Peet)
• With that accent? What is he doing? I don't know. Sometimes I could but when I couldn't, it was still really funny. (Amanda Peet)
• I really loved the script, I thought it was really sweet, smart, and I love John. It was kind of a no-brainer. (Amanda Peet)
• 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. (Amanda Peet)
• I guess I was really scarred by that. (Amanda Peet)
• The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't. (Amanda Peet)
• There's a whole section of the movie where they're emailing each other and they had a reader who was reading the stage directions, going, "He types, blah blah blah", and Jack was tap-tap-tap [mimes typing] and I was like: 'Oh my God! He's still madly in love with acting!' (Amanda Peet)
• 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 (Amanda Peet)
• 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. (Amanda Peet)
• 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. (Amanda Peet)
• I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it. (Amanda Peet)
• I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big! (Amanda Peet)
• If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat. (Amanda Peet)
• When I read The Whole Nine Yards I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role (Amanda Peet)
• A Lot Like Love (Amanda Peet)
• My agent was like, 'Oh my God, you're going to love her (Amanda Peet)
• The Amityville Horror. (Amanda Peet)
• When I read The Whole Nine Yards I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'. (Amanda Peet)

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