Robert Zemeckis Quotes

When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.

Robert Zemeckis

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• A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Great
  • Game
  • Interesting

• The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Deep
  • Galaxy

• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Think
  • Feelings

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • History
  • Free

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Myself
  • Better Person

• Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Understanding
  • Break

• I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Always

• I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Real
  • School
  • Career

• You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • History
  • Day

• There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Good
  • Progress

• You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

  

  Tan Le
  • Up
  • Day
  • Wake Up

• I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Powerful

• Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • You
  • Speech
  • Breathing

• I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Politics
  • Discussions
  • Political Opinions

• 'Kris Kringle' is a holiday musical for a new generation - a gorgeous score paired with a heartwarming tale of family and forgiveness.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Family
  • Forgiveness
  • Holiday

• Of course there are a lot of books that are interesting to make movies out of, but on the other hand, I think video games are also kind of like bestselling books for the younger generation, and the younger generation is the one going to the theaters.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Interesting

• I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Gold-Medal
  • Olympic Champion
  • Ohio River

• When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Anything
  • Monster
  • Fascinated