Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Tim Robbins

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• In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Politics
  • Disagree

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Want
  • Know
  • Thought

• A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel

• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Pretty
  • Acting
  • Stage

• One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Money

• There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Dream
  • Welcome

• I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Great
  • Eye
  • Color

• You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Professional
  • Rap

• A lot of films come out before they're finished.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Come
  • Finished
  • Out

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.

  

  Edith Stein
  • May
  • Earth
  • Serious

• I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

  

  Adam Faith
  • People
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Song
  • Strange

• The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Pain

• Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.

  

  David Wilcock
  • World
  • Work
  • Respect

• It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Habit
  • Dwell

• We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Teacher
  • Teaching
  • Tomorrow

• What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Country
  • Proud
  • Happened

• I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Acting
  • inspirational
  • Philosophy