Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because shes beautiful but dont have anything to talk about, its 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
Theres a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. Its not easy to get a good job with good actors. – Amanda Peet
Well, my mom is single and weve both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Dianes. – Amanda Peet
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… were adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And thats the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. – Henry Louis Gates