Ricky Schroder Quotes

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• I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

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  Childhood, Wish, Spending

  "Ricky Schroder Stars in New Film While Musing About Politics". Interview with Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.

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  Jobs, Trying, Valleys

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• In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

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  Trying, Savages, Culture

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• I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

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  School, Kids, Talking

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• I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.

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  Car, Gasoline, Littles

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• I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in.

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  Giving, Actors, Knows

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

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  Giving Up, Inspiration, Losing

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

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  Horse, Fun, Believe

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• I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.

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  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

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• I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

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  Actors, Forests, Wildlife

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• I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.

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  Character, Writing, House

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• I asked Michael Jackson once. I said to him, 'How were you able to go from the Jackson Five to the biggest star in the world? What was your secret, Michael?' He said, 'Ricky, stay inspired. That's the hardest thing to do. If you can figure out a way to stay inspired, you can make it.'

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  Stars, Secret, World

  Source: 411mania.com

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• If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.

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  People, Want, Hollywood

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• I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.

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  Kids, Nerd, Hips

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• A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

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  Mean, Odds, Good Movie

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• There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

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  Smile, Growing Up, Teenager

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• I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

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  Fighting, Roots, Succeed

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• Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

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  Order, Trying, Periods

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• I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

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  Kids, Acting, Lessons

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• My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

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  Daughter, Children, Years

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• My sympathies go out to the young performers today because they are under a microscope in a way I wasn't. Now everybody's got a camera phone and can record at will or take pictures of you. It's just a different world. I don't know how I would have fared back then.

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  Phones, Different, Records

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the challenges and the struggles that come with being an actor, with being a writer and a director, and the challenges of morphing my career in from just being an actor into a writer/director.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Years

  Source: 411mania.com

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• As a young actor, there's a very small group of kids, just a handful. As you get older, all of a sudden, there's a bunch of guys your age that work. It's a very different experience when you used to be on the short list because you were young and there's only so many kids that can do the work and then all of a sudden you're in your twenties and thirties and there's a whole bunch of guys that can do your work.

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  Kids, Different Experiences, Guy

  Source: 411mania.com

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• My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

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  Dream, Disappointment, Mistake

  "Ricky Schroder Stars in New Film While Musing About Politics". Interview with Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• I'm very loving and supporting of my actors. I also expect them to show up prepared, happy to be there, and give their all as I do as an actor.

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  Giving, Actors, Shows

  Source: 411mania.com

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