Tim Robbins Quotes
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If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.
— Tim Robbins
I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.
— Tim Robbins
Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
— Tim Robbins
I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.
— Tim Robbins
You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.
— Tim Robbins
I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
— Tim Robbins
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
— Tim Robbins
You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.
— Tim Robbins
I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?
— Tim Robbins
I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.
— Tim Robbins
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
— Tim Robbins
There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.
— Tim Robbins
I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.
— Tim Robbins
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
— Tim Robbins
If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.
— Tim Robbins
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
— Tim Robbins
It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.
— Tim Robbins
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
— Tim Robbins
I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer.
— Tim Robbins
When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.
— Tim Robbins
Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.
— Tim Robbins
I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.
— Tim Robbins
Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.
— J. Robbins
Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
— Tim Robbins
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
— Tim Robbins
I'd really like to do a movie again with Tim Robbins and Clint Eastwood. They were really good guys.
— Cayden Boyd
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
— Tim Robbins
My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.
— Tim Robbins
Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
— Tim Robbins
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
— Tim Robbins
I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.
— Tim Robbins
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
— Tim Robbins
It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.
— Tim Robbins
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
— Tim Robbins
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
— Tim Robbins
I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.
— Tim Robbins
I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.
— Tim Robbins
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
— Tim Robbins
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
— Tim Robbins
It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.
— Tim Robbins
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
— Tim Robbins
You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
— Tim Robbins
There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
— Tim Robbins
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
— Tim Robbins
Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.
— Tim Robbins
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
— Tim Robbins
I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.
— Tim Robbins
I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.
— Tim Robbins
I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.
— Tim Robbins