Roddy Bottum Quotes

I never really got any backlash from coming out. Across the board all I really got was kids who were grateful, which is so touching and rewarding for me. So grateful that I came out, that I could serve as someone in their world that was gay and helped them feel comfortable about being gay themselves.

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• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Health
  • Sick
  • Choose

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Man
  • Play
  • Television

• If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Live
  • Integrity
  • Rebel

• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Said

• I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Intelligence

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Hope
  • Research
  • Medical

• I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Meet
  • Hug

• Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Values
  • Wealth
  • Capitalism

• I'm so happy when I'm working.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Happy
  • Working

• I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Cute

• The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Boss

• I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.

  

  Frederick Sanger
  • Work
  • Home
  • She

• As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Hey

• I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Painting

• I never really got any backlash from coming out. Across the board all I really got was kids who were grateful, which is so touching and rewarding for me. So grateful that I came out, that I could serve as someone in their world that was gay and helped them feel comfortable about being gay themselves.

  

  Roddy Bottum Faith No More
  • Kids
  • Gay
  • Grateful