Peter Marino Quotes

For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my bare chest until a friend who was a doctor came by and asked what I was doing, and told me to put some clothes on that baby.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn't.

My craft's been rising. I'm a student of the game and I'm still growing.

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear to me that I was a very poor writer and could've ruined my career before it even started.

I was so young in 'Bring It On!' I didn't know what I didn't know.

A lot of times, it takes you a while to grow, especially in this league, because year to year is different.

It takes time and experience to make a person.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

Sometimes you have to let young people develop.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

Some things get better with age. Like me.

My job has me traveling all the time, and I got this house, so my downtime is spent sort of making a home. Every year it's different, and I try to do things that are more fulfilling.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn’t done it “that much.” It hurt a little more than I'd expected but in a different way, and he was nervous too and he never came. Afterwards we lay there and talked, and I could tell he was a really nice person. I commended myself for making a healthy, albeit hasty, partner choice. I really couldn't wait to tell my mom.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.