Stephen Root Quotes

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

Stephen Root

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think I'm always going to be a paranormal girl at heart. I'm always going to be intrigued by it.

Jennifer Armentrout

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I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

Robert Pinsky

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Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

John Hickenlooper

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I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

Michael Crichton

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It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

Ana Gasteyer

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I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

Michael Palin

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I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

Jason Reitman

HopeYouWantOpen-MindedAnswer

I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.

Jon Gruden

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With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.

Deirdre O'Kane

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History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

David Souter

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Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

Christina Grimmie

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The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

Craig Ferguson

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