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I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while.
Stephen Root
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Stephen Root
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: November 17
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Sarasota
Florida
Stephen Aaron Root
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm lucky I get to work a lot.
Stephen Root
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.
Stephen Root
It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.
Stephen Root
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.
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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.
Stephen Root
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.
Stephen Root
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.
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Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.
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The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
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Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.
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The ratio of people to cake is too big.
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I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.
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