Richard Bartlett Schroder Jr. Quotes

• 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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• I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

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• I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.

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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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• It’s difficult being a child actor. I don’t think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

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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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• Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

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• I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.

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

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Richard Bartlett Schroder Jr. (49)

Birth:	13th April, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director

About

Richard Bartlett "Ricky" Schroder, Jr. is an American actor and film director. He debuted in the 1979 hit film The Champ, going on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons. He has continued acting as an adult, notably on the western Lonesome Dove and the television crime drama NYPD Blue.

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• 1977 - Laura Wilkinson
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• 1944 - Tom Seaver
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• 1988 - Sheilah Graham
• 1968 - Mervyn Peake
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• 2003 - Don Gibson
• 1917 - Auguste Rodin