Stephen Root Quotes

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

Stephen Root

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 17, 1951

Topics

MeYouActingI CanKnowKind

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

John Desmond Bernal

FuturePastThoughtPresentWill

The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers.

Andrea M. Ghez

GreatPeopleSurviveRealAtmosphere

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

Tom King

YourselfEmpathyWritingSomeoneYou

What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

Mary Beard

WorldInterestingSpeechConnection

As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.

Mira Sorvino

WorldYouNothingUnderstandPlot

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

Mitt Romney

FamilyHumorCompetitionJokesFive

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

Judy Gold

WomenLaughRole ModelSheFirst

There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

Christopher Alexander

RocksSayRockOilHiddenResources

I didn't really know any Buddy Garritys, but I knew they were out there.

Brad Leland

KnowOutKnewBuddyReallyWere

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

Bruce Feiler

LearningAgeGreatMyselfCulture

The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda videotape that the group's media division released in the spring of 2001, when the 9/11 attacks were in their final planning phase.

Peter Bergen

SpringPlanningMediaGroupSpecial

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

Penn Jillette

TechnologyMeBodyCivilizationSome

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