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.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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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.'
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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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.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
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Television was essentially my college.
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I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.
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I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.
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...four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.'
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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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.
