Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.


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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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Ich habe sie Erfahrung gemacht, dass die Menschen aus vielen verschiedenen Schichten von Geheimnisse...
VERONICA ROTH
. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to b...
GENEEN ROTH
When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe tha...
GENEEN ROTH
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are...
GENEEN ROTH
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is for...
PHILIP ROTH
Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as...
VERONICA ROTH
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
VERONICA ROTH
My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a centu...
PHILIP ROTH
If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.
MARK ROTH
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a mor...
VERONICA ROTH
Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific ta...
ELI ROTH
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
VERONICA ROTH
There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses...
VERONICA ROTH
Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
VERONICA ROTH
I don’t know how long it takes for me to realize that isn’t going to happen,
that she is go...
VERONICA ROTH
Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
VERONICA ROTH
It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, t...
VERONICA ROTH
Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strengt...
VERONICA ROTH
Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.
VERONICA ROTH
But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mothe...
VERONICA ROTH
I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
VERONICA ROTH
Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"

I r...
VERONICA ROTH
The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
VERONICA ROTH
If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
VERONICA ROTH
The person you became with her is worth being.
VERONICA ROTH
Change, like healing, takes time.
VERONICA ROTH
You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
"You're one to talk."
"Hey, I could be nice if I t...
VERONICA ROTH
I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
VERONICA ROTH
She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done f...
VERONICA ROTH
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTH
I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
VERONICA ROTH
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y...
TIM ROTH
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
PHILIP ROTH
When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was l...
ANDREA ROTH
He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scene...
ANDREA ROTH
All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy.
ANDREA ROTH
We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, cert...
ANDREA ROTH
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going t...
ELI ROTH
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w...
PHILIP ROTH
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-ge...
ELI ROTH
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes ...
TIM ROTH
'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. I...
ELI ROTH
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ...
VERONICA ROTH
I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Daunt...
VERONICA ROTH