And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.
At this point, I'm spoiled. I've actually had a really blessed career.
I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.
I had done one play in high school, but then I hurt my back pole-vaulting. To meet a girl. Met the girl, took her to the prom, but I didn't like the part I got in the play.
I like a lot of things about my job, but in particular I like that the actors get to come to work and explore behavior, explore people's life rules. The rules that we set up for ourselves to live by, when do we break them? When do we change them? Those are the things that turn me on about acting.
I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.
I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.
I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.
I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.
I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.
I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
It's part of the journey of being an actor. You have to share some personal things once in a while that you you'd rather not.
My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.
People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.
This is exactly what I have always wanted to be doing. It's been difficult to get here. I've had to do a lot of other things along the way.
We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.
Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.
Peter is 6'1 (1.85m) tall.
Peter had a small role in the Jim Carrey film The Truman Show as Truman's co-worker/actor on the Truman Show.
Peter has a BA in English from Gustavus Adolphus College (1987) and an MFA in Acting from New York University (1989).
Peter has one sister, Amy.
Peter was nominated for a Best Actor in a Drama Series Emmy award in 2006 for his role in Six Feet Under.
Both of Peter's parents are teachers; his father was a high school English teacher, and his mother was a second grade teacher.
Peter's last name is pronounced KROW-saa.
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