Stephen Root Quotes
I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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History will treat me right.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning.
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We need to send a powerful message to the world in a unified voice: that we can fight for social justice for everyone, everywhere, and change the world, not just get married. We can continue to build our communities and address the root causes of queer and trans poverty and deaths.
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Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
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If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
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I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
