41 Quotes by Stephen Root

Movies are an editor’s medium.

It’s fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn’t involve memorizing lines, and you don’t have to dress up.

My whole career, I’ve tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I’ve done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

It’s easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It’s not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

I’m from New York, so I’m a big Howard Stern fan.

My goal as an actor was to work – to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn’t even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I’m lucky I get to work a lot.

I don’t aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven’t had a chance to do that.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don’t just do one thing. There’s a lot of people who do just one thing.