Happy Birthday: Stephen Root

Stephen Root

Born: November 17, 1951 in Sarasota, Florida, USA

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. So I’ll do a lot of comedy, and then I’ll not do comedy for a year, do The West Wing (1999) and then do something else. 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.

(2007) 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. So, in that sense, I have achieved my goal of being a working actor. And luckily enough, I have recognition to be able to do jobs that I want to do instead of doing jobs for money, which is an enviable position to be in. It’s what you work for your whole life anyway, to take jobs that interest you and not jobs that are just crap.

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