Robert Picardo Quotes

I can walk down the street, and 85 percent of the people on the block are really quite oblivious to me. They either think I'm probably an actor or else I installed their storm windows two years ago, or I work at their bank, or maybe I'm their cousin Marie's gynecologist. Then, to the other 15 percent of those people on the street, I'm a rock star.

Robert Picardo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1953

Topics

WorkWalkStormPeopleMeThink

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

Robert Louis Stevenson

ManYouSometimesNeedHimExpect

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

Michael Caine

MeYouSaySittingActorWay

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

John W. Gardner

GreatOpportunitiesProblemsSeries

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

SuccessBestYouBecomeKnowingDid

There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them. Either they have no support from their family or they live in a part of the world, maybe they've never heard a piano or seen a piano.

Stephen Hough

FamilyLiveSupportPeopleWorld

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

Tracey Gold

YourselfWalkingYouBodyDownDead

Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different.

Rob Dyrdek

MeYouFameStreetWillOut

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

Lukas Foss

WorkMoneyArtistKnowWantWhy

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

PeopleProcessInterestingGoHorror

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Chris Van Allsburg

ValueBeingDefinitelyLiterate

We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread.

Colin Camerer

PeopleUncertaintyThinkingReward

I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

FreedomStruggleI AmWantAskHow

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