Top 100 Petersen Quotes
#1. I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
Paulo Coelho
#2. To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget ... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.
Gary Cole
#3. I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.
Jorja Fox
#4. I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.
William Petersen
#5. Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies.
Jesse Petersen
#7. Be proactive; and ready to run if proactive backfires.
Jesse Petersen
#8. Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.
David Petersen
#9. Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies
Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work.
David Petersen
#10. Um, didn't Mythbusters once do an episode about how you couldn't use sheets as a way out of prison?" I laughed. "I don't remember if they busted it or not.
Jesse Petersen
#11. Do fight unwinnable battles. Sometimes they're worth it.
Jesse Petersen
#12. I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.
David Petersen
#13. Strive for more. More zombies, more fighting, more profit.
Jesse Petersen
#14. I stared at him. David, that's prison movies, not zombie movie.
Jesse Petersen
#15. Don't forget the little people, even when you want to.
Jesse Petersen
#16. Profits aren't everything. If you can get out with only your ass intact, that's pretty good too.
Jesse Petersen
#17. Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
William Petersen
#18. Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?
Wolfgang Petersen
#19. You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.
Anders Petersen
#20. A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ...
William Petersen
#21. Don't fear change. Just fear everything and everyone else.
Jesse Petersen
#23. Yeah." Sven said. "The stuff she just said. Let's not get all killy.
Jesse Petersen
#24. In the Netherlands, fewer than one in thirty riders wear helmets, the streets are full of cyclists, and the bike accident and head injury rate is far lower than it is in the United States.
Grant Petersen
#26. We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!
William Petersen
#27. If you happen to be out at night on the bike path without a light, ring your bell constantly. No bell? Then sing "Hotel Yorba" on a continuous loop, loud enough to warn the unseen.
Grant Petersen
#28. Life is a circus: you go in, bow, run around, bow again and leave.
Storm Petersen
#29. There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures ... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be.
Anders Petersen
#30. Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side
Donald Petersen
#32. One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
William Petersen
#33. If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.
William Petersen
#34. Writing is a vessel ... with readers the ocean and authors as its sails ...
William Petersen
#35. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection.
Mark E. Petersen
#36. What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.
Wolfgang Petersen
#37. Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality
Jordan Petersen
#38. It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.
Mark E. Petersen
#39. I stopped as I thought of poor Jack on my bathroom floor, just another victim of Dr. Phil.
Jesse Petersen
#40. I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
William Petersen
#41. In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.
Anders Petersen
#42. Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.
Wolfgang Petersen
#43. You are your partner are on the same side - it's the side of the living.
Jesse Petersen
#44. I can't describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.
Anders Petersen
#45. Share in your activities and interests. If you are going to kill zombies anyway, why not do it together?
Jesse Petersen
#47. As the disclaimer a few pages back highlights, I am not a doctor. But let me ask you this: How helpful has your doctor been?
Grant Petersen
#48. Address one issue at a time.You can't load gasoline, pick up food, AND kill fifteen zombies at once
Jesse Petersen
#49. Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.
William Petersen
#50. God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.
Mark E. Petersen
#51. Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
William Petersen
#52. To me, it's encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.
Anders Petersen
#53. The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.
David Petersen
#54. Building relationships is building business. Also, you sometimes need other people to kill all the motherfucking zombies.
Jesse Petersen
#55. I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
William Petersen
#56. as I'm concerned, slow-cooking is the only way to cook (at least most of the time). It saves time, can be very versatile (check out all the different recipes
Karen Bellessa Petersen
#57. The natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is.
David Petersen
#58. The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.
William Petersen
#59. Show physical affection. Nothing says "I love you" like bearing the entirety of your spouse's weight.
Jesse Petersen
#60. Put the small stuff into perspective. It's better to be wrong and alive than right but eating brains.
Jesse Petersen
#62. Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.
William Petersen
#63. We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.
Wolfgang Petersen
#64. The question: What color is my parachute?
The answer: blood red, brains gray, sludge black.
Jesse Petersen
#66. Solution 2: Don't let your blinky light blink. By keeping it on steady mode, you'll use up the battery faster, but you'll be around to buy more. Don't be cheap and dead.
Grant Petersen
#67. Profits are everything; but to get them you have to catch a zombie.
Jesse Petersen
#68. You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.
Wolfgang Petersen
#69. Support your partner in their interests. You never know when batting practice, kung fu movie moves, or even a poker night might come in handy during a zombie infestation.
Jesse Petersen
#70. I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.
William Petersen
#71. Talk openly about important issues like money, sex, and religion. They can affect your life and happiness a great deal. Especially when it comes to cults.
Jesse Petersen
#73. I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.
William Petersen
#76. Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
William Petersen
#77. I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.
Wolfgang Petersen
#78. I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.
William Petersen
#79. Strive for the 4 hour work week. The rest of the time run like hell.
Jesse Petersen
#80. And I will sing with my soul that my song shall echo in thy heart for eternity.
Emilie Petersen
#81. I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.
William Petersen
#82. Revelation, which is often associated with the end of things, also speaks of new beginnings - a new name (2:17); a new Jerusalem (3:12); a new heaven and a new earth (21:1); and all things new (21:5). It reads like a description of New Year's Eve. Ring out the old; ring in the new!
William J. Petersen
#83. It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.
David Petersen
#84. I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.
Anders Petersen
#85. Diets that don't limit carbs, yet require smaller portions and more exercise, are doomed to fail because they keep you hungry and make you store fat.
Grant Petersen
#86. Expand. Why stick to just killing zombies? Or killing them just one way.
Jesse Petersen
#87. Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
William Petersen
#88. I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.
William Petersen
#89. Have you ever wanted to smash a car? Or break a television? Or maybe burn a big fire in the middle of a city square? If the answer is yes, then you'd have some fun during a zombie infestation. It's the little moments, you know?
Jesse Petersen
#90. The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!.
Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen
#91. I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.
William Petersen
#92. When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.
William Petersen
#93. And then, anger gave way to pure and simple job satisfaction. I mean, when I looked at a dead zombie head on a spike, I thought, Hey, I did that. Picasso would have been proud. Especially how I rearranged that eye
Jesse Petersen
#94. Admit when you're wrong. It doesn't fix a busted leg, of course, but it's a nice gesture none-the-less.
Jesse Petersen
#95. Because I'm not really certain she'd make the best travel partner through a zombie-infested city, he hissed. She gets confused by Scrabble.
Jesse Petersen
#96. Find creative ways to have fun together. Looting is really underrated.
Jesse Petersen
#97. The soul and heart are intertwined like the vine is to the oak.
Emilie Petersen
#100. Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.
William Petersen
