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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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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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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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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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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I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
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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 wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
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I tend to like dry humor.
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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
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All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
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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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We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.
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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.
