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Stephen Root
American
Actor
Born:
Nov 17
,
1951
Character
Every
People
Think
Work
You
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I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.
Stephen Root
Love
News
Character
Say
Would
Highlight
Much
Radio
Career
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.
Stephen Root
Work
You
Memorizing
Dress
Dress-Up
Voiceover
Involve
Although
Still
Lines
Up
Act
Fun
When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.
Stephen Root
Funny
You
Every
Think
Williams
Riot
Scene
He
Takes
Robin
Robin Williams
Least
Five
Improv
Did
Improvising
Six
Just
Worked
Now
Differently
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.
Stephen Root
Character
Business
First
Gone
Think
Thinking
Strictly
Character Actor
Evolved
Guy
Never
Knew
Leading
Well
Because
Got
Years
Just
Being
Wanted
Working
Working Actor
Naturally
Actor
In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.
Stephen Root
Work
Day
You
Every Day
People
Gone
Every
Guest
TV
Environment
Gliding
Comfortable
Coming
Doing
Go
Very
Get
Roles
Where
Again
Then
Zone
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
You
People
Out
Out Here
One Thing
Casting
Directors
Casting Directors
Remind
Lot
Just
Just One
Just One Thing
Who
Thing
Here
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
Work
Consider
Television
New
Along
Well
Came
Goal
York
New York
Whether
Theater
Working
Working Actor
Even
Film
Actor
Film And Television
Movies are an editor's medium.
Stephen Root
Medium
Editor
Movies
I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while.
Stephen Root
Every
Once
Thrilled
Hired
Get
While
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.
Stephen Root
Best
You
People
Think
Else
Caricature
Guy
General
Terms
Real
Doing
Impression
Than
Real People
Just
The Hardest Thing
Want
Anything
Anything Else
Them
Views
Researching
Harder
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Presenting
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
Funny
Truth
Character
You
Comedy
Truthful
Going
Being
Order
Moment
Play
Basis
I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.
Stephen Root
Book
Big
Comic
Comic Book
Fan
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