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

• In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Life
  • Women
  • Dumb

• Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

  

  Dirk Benedict
  • Dumb

• 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

• We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.

  

  Bootsy Collins
  • World
  • Power
  • Smart

• Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • World
  • Virtue
  • Humor

• 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

• Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Present
  • Actors
  • Natural

• 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

• Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Men
  • Team
  • Acting

• There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Sadness

• Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Theatre
  • I Love
  • Trained

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

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Actors
  • Dumb
  • Politician