Richard Roeper Quotes

People call me Swimone more than Simone now.... Not quite used to that yet!

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

I can't assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can't do it in a way where it's too much, where it's rude. I feel like when you're a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being.

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete.

I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I'll always be a dancer.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

Well, I’ll be darned. When you put on a uniform there are certain inhibitions which you accept.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.

Everybody calls me Big Man.

When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.

I follow the roles.

I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.