Stephen Root Quotes

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

Stephen Root

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Moment

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Desire
  • Alone
  • Moment

• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Good
  • Truth
  • News

• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Wise

• Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Truth
  • Man

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Important
  • Myself

• Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Happiness
  • Moment

• Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Writing
  • Science

• If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Truth

• What puzzles me most is your criticism that he showed 'no sense of engagement'. I haven't met the expression before, and feel bound to comment on its totalitarian tang. Engagement not with the truth as the speaker apprehends it, but with the alleged opinion of the majority of listeners.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Criticism

• I have no driver's license, so I ride a bicycle beside the Han River. That's what I really love because no one gives a damn about me for that moment. I feel so free.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Love
  • Moment
  • Bicycle

• People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Thought

• He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Conscious
  • Little Child
  • Paragon

• Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Good

• My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • People
  • Depends
  • Bryan

• In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Truth
  • Comedy
  • Moment