Evan Peters Quotes

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.

I was working in commercials and music videos, always with the goal of working in feature films.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.

If you are tuning in just for the show, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they’re not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, "If you’d done that in the movie, you’d have won an Oscar, girl."

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.