Richard Roeper Quotes

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

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• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • True
  • Career

• And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Character
  • Study

• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Everything
  • Possible
  • Begins

• I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Me

• Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Process
  • Form

• My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Science
  • Powerful

• If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Myself

• My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Mind
  • Father
  • Doubt

• I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Father

• I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model - you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • May
  • Remember
  • Attention

• I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Advice

• It is interesting: in France, the horror films are not so popular. People go to see them, but not for the same reason. It is more artistic and process.

  

  Christophe Gans
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Popular

• There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players who are very good inside but don't have the physique, the legs, to go outside.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Good

• Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Know
  • Lying
  • Chicago

• In Chicago, I'd audition 3-4 times a week, but when I got out to L.A., there were, like, 4-5 a day, and my skin got really thick.

  

  Jacob Zachar
  • Chicago

• Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Start
  • Being
  • Aggressive

• I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

  

  Richard Roeper
  • Chicago
  • South