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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
— 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
That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
— Roger Ebert
If you don't flush out the pipes, they'll run brown.
— Roger Ebert
We are the playthings of the gods.
— 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
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
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
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
— 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
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