Richard Roeper Quotes
When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.
Quotes to Explore
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
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More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
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My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'
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If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.
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Once in a while I do put up a video or a thank you tweet for my fans. I think our interaction cements our bond. Getting so much love from them makes me feel blessed.
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Everything is politically correct nowadays.
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I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.
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People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
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Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
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Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
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When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
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I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.
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At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
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I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.
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When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.
