Stephen Root Quotes
I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
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But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
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I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
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Now what's important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona is. And so when you're dealing with actors, it just makes it more difficult, because you have to help them come up with one. You know, Johnny Depp has no Johnny Depp character when he's onstage. You haven't seen An Evening With Johnny Depp at Carnegie Hall.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.
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I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.
