Richard Roeper Quotes

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

Richard Roeper

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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

• 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 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

• With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • Up
  • Taken

• At times I think and at times I am.

  

  Paul Valery

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• I went to, you know, a church in Chicago, and my mom, of course, was in the choir because my mom was a singer; she used to sing. I wanted to be in the choir as well, and I was like, 'Mom, please, you know, I want to sing in the choir with you guys.' I kept on asking her, and finally I was, you know, in the choir.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • She
  • Mom
  • Church

• People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Good
  • True
  • Earth

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

  

  Richard Roeper
  • Chicago
  • South