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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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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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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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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Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
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I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I'd go to a Yankees game every week.
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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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.
