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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose. — Roger Ebert

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame. — Roger Ebert

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character. — Roger Ebert

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring. — Roger Ebert

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more. — Roger Ebert

They give you a smaller glass so it feels like you're getting more, — Roger Ebert

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex. — Roger Ebert

Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits! — Roger Ebert

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out. — Roger Ebert

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. — Roger Ebert

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. — Roger Ebert

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies. — Roger Ebert

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. — Roger Ebert

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. — Roger Ebert

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls. — Roger Ebert

Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star. — Roger Ebert

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. — Roger Ebert

We spend too much time hiding illness. — Roger Ebert

The Academy is paranoid about its image. — Roger Ebert

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be. — Roger Ebert

Never marry someone who doesn't love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you. — Roger Ebert

That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason. — Roger Ebert

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. — Roger Ebert

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me. — Roger Ebert

Some of these people make my skin crawl. — Roger Ebert

Don't waste time on how it starts until you know how it ends, — Roger Ebert

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. — Roger Ebert

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. — Roger Ebert

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God. — Roger Ebert

Because an American can have a double-barreled last name but there is little practice for a triple-barreled one. — Roger Ebert

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear — Roger Ebert

It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed. — Roger Ebert

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.' — Roger Ebert

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. — Roger Ebert

What you see is so much less than what you get. — Roger Ebert

The very fact of snow is such an amazement. — Roger Ebert

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
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It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot. — Roger Ebert

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life. — Roger Ebert

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems. — Roger Ebert

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy. — Roger Ebert

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated? — Roger Ebert

As the man says in the play, for this relief, much thanks. — Roger Ebert

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. — Roger Ebert

Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him. — Roger Ebert

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law. — Roger Ebert

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. — Roger Ebert

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. — Roger Ebert

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence. — Roger Ebert

Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move. — Roger Ebert

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. — Roger Ebert

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it. — Roger Ebert

Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them. — Roger Ebert

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long. — Roger Ebert

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it. — Roger Ebert

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. — Roger Ebert

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods. — Roger Ebert

[Orson Welles] was a man who made the greatest film ever made and was never forgiven for it. — Roger Ebert

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free. — Roger Ebert

To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water. — Roger Ebert

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values. — Roger Ebert

You are never warmer than when you have been cold. — Roger Ebert

No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad. — Roger Ebert

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it. — Roger Ebert

I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there? — Roger Ebert

What makes people interesting is the spirit that shines through. — Roger Ebert

Gene Siskel used to describe old-age makeup as making young actors look like turtles. — Roger Ebert

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know. — Roger Ebert

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. — Roger Ebert

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. — Roger Ebert

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life. — Roger Ebert

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are. — Roger Ebert

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. — Roger Ebert

If you don't flush out the pipes, they'll run brown. — Roger Ebert

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before. — Roger Ebert

We are the playthings of the gods. — Roger Ebert

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with. — Roger Ebert

I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance. — Roger Ebert

The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun. — Roger Ebert

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable. — Roger Ebert

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection. — Roger Ebert

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' — Roger Ebert

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking. — Roger Ebert

Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying. — Roger Ebert

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA. — Roger Ebert

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen. — Roger Ebert

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century. — Roger Ebert

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream. — Roger Ebert

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented. — Roger Ebert

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly. — Roger Ebert

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. — Roger Ebert

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate. — Roger Ebert

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win. — Roger Ebert

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again. — Roger Ebert

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing. — Roger Ebert

I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed. — Roger Ebert

Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature. — Roger Ebert

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. — Roger Ebert