Stephen Tobolowsky Quotes

United States, Actor
May 30, 1951

Stephen Harold Tobolowsky is an American actor, author, and musician. He is known for film roles such as annoying insurance agent Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Memento, as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry (Deadwood), Bob Bishop (Heroes), Sandy Ryerson (Glee), Stu Beggs (Californication and White Famous), and Action Jack Barker (Silicon Valley).

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Stephen Tobolowsky
- Age
- Scripts
- Demographics
Marriage isn’t about the good days. Anyone can make a life with anyone else when you are having a good day. Marriage is about the bad days. When you have lost confidence. When you have been hurt. Or failed. Or gotten angry. Or made a terrible mistake. That is when the power of a marriage reveals itself.

Stephen Tobolowsky

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Stephen Tobolowsky
- Life
- Beat
- Alternatives
It's funny how we imagine that lifelong relationships have to be build on a mountain top of moments, so huge they're written across the sky in letters a mile wide. But I knew a skywriter once and he told me the letters are just strategically placed puffs of smoke that are easily blown away. In reality, a life together is made of the simplest, smallest things.

Stephen Tobolowsky
- Life
- Reality
- Things
The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful… it's not. It is delicate.

Stephen Tobolowsky
I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

Stephen Tobolowsky
- Happy
- Tears
- Set
I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

Stephen Tobolowsky
- Hair
- Losing
- Traumatic
It seems like people make the mistake of thinking love is about the bedroom. It's not. It's about the emergency room. Love and marriage is who will sit there and wait

Stephen Tobolowsky
- Marriage
- Mistake
- Bedroom

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

Stephen Tobolowsky
- Artist
- Enemy
- Comfort
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Stephen Tobolowsky
- Hate
- Belief
- Fact