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

• Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Poetry
  • Goal
  • Beauty

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

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Nothing

• We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Money
  • High

• Sometimes people go to a yoga class and think it's not for them, but it might just not be the right studio or teacher - try a new one!

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • People
  • Teacher
  • Yoga

• Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Death

• Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

  

  Billy Tauzin
  • Water

• My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.

  

  Keith Moon The Who
  • Friends

• 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
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