Stephen Tobolowsky quotes

It's funny how we imagine that lifelong relationships have to be build on a mountain top of moments, so huge they're written across the sky in letters a mile wide. But I knew a skywriter once and he told me the letters are just strategically placed puffs of smoke that are easily blown away. In reality, a life together is made of the simplest, smallest things. (Stephen Tobolowsky)
My son Robert, the scientist, told me at dinner that blue is not blue. That what we call blue is actually something that absorbs all other energy frequencies and rejects blue. Our eyes see the frequencies cast off as blue and we call it blue. I wondered, are we defined by the things we are, or the things we reject?
Stephen Tobolowsky
The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful... it's not. It is delicate.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Marriage isn't about the good days. Anyone can make a life with anyone else when you are having a good day. Marriage is about the bad days. When you have lost confidence. When you have been hurt. Or failed. Or gotten angry. Or made a terrible mistake. That is when the power of a marriage reveals itself.
Stephen Tobolowsky
[...] it seems like people make the mistake of thinking love is about the bedroom. It's not. It's about the emergency room. Love and marriage is who will sit there and wait.
Stephen Tobolowsky
I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
Stephen Tobolowsky
I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.
Stephen Tobolowsky
On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.
Stephen Tobolowsky