Roger Ebert Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Roger Ebert on Wise Famous Quotes.
Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.
Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.
Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.
What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.
I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.
Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.
I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
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.
I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
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.
No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.
Never marry someone who doesn't love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.
Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.
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.
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.
That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason.
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.
Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.
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
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.