Robert Zemeckis Quotes

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

Robert Zemeckis

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• For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Work
  • Children

• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Reaction

• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Day
  • Bible

• I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

  

  Malachi Throne
  • Money
  • Wind
  • Same

• To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Great
  • Surround Yourself

• I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Long
  • Respect

• To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Art
  • Society
  • Dangerous

• There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Think
  • Friendships

• There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Past
  • Balance
  • Mistakes

• I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Truth
  • Adventist

• I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • See
  • Switzerland

• I'm very religious.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Religious
  • Very

• I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Service

• You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Music
  • Want

• When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Country
  • Real

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Birthday

• We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Day
  • Path
  • End

• Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Television

• I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Television
  • Addicted