Peter Gallagher Quotes

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

Unless you're one of the five billionaires out there who don't have to worry about anything, every aspect of everything is stressful, no matter what your job is.

It's nice when you can tell stories that brush up against the world we live in.

We're human, so you're never happy with what you have.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives to ITA’s software: both the GDSs but also upstarts such as the U.K.’s Everbread Ltd., which has relationships with 60 low-cost carriers, and Vayant Travel Technologies LLC of New York. It isn’t clear, therefore, that competition would be reduced even if Googled didn’t honor ITA’s contracts with other travel companies.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

You can only be stupid when you're young.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.