Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

Tim Robbins

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• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Ballplayers

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Work
  • Love
  • Me

• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • President
  • Scary
  • Dumb

• I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Dumb

• Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • People
  • War
  • Taken

• The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• Latinos are very passionate, and they perform a lot, and look at me, I'm talking with my hands, and this is just my normal self, so it kind of allows me to be who I am and not dumb it down.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • Dumb

• Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Important
  • Business

• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
  • Giving
  • Respect

• I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • True
  • Movie
  • Acting

• Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Movies
  • Actors

• There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Education
  • Dumb
  • Ass

• The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Politician

• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

  

  Courtney Love
  • Music
  • Creation
  • Dumb

• I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Actors

• Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Mind
  • Phrases
  • Brightness

• There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Actors
  • Dumb
  • Politician