Richard Roeper Quotes
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I tend to like dry humor.
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You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
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Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.
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Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.
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I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
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In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
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I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.
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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf.
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Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
