Stephen Root Quotes

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

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• I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Work
  • Think
  • Travel

• There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • You
  • Ignorance
  • Embrace

• I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Day

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Fall
  • Wall

• Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Find
  • Fault
  • Others

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • You
  • Sleep

• I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interviews

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• My mother never really thought I could become anything.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Thought
  • Become

• Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • More
  • Become
  • Edge

• I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dark

• Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Nothing

• I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Romantic

• Television was essentially my college.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • College
  • Television

• I've been exposed to a ton of 'Magneto' stories over the years, and they all influence me.

  

  Cullen Bunn

• Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Different
  • Fun

• I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.

  

  Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Prayer

• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Theater