Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

Tim Robbins

• Confidence
• Enough
• Criticism
• Ability
• Changed
• Masterpiece

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• I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • School
  • Huge
  • Atlanta

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • History
  • Know
  • Most

• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Together
  • Strong

• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Struggle
  • Fly
  • Blow

• I'm really a normal person.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Person
  • Really
  • Normal

• In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Design

• Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • May
  • Faith
  • Lost

• If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Heart
  • Why

• What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Fire
  • Advice

• You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Fall
  • Path

• I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.

  

  Luther Campbell
  • Good
  • Fun

• Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Kids
  • Today

• I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.

  

  Adam Rippon

• While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel
  • Long

• How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a doctrine. Rather one must seek to convince him that the Savior is there for him, has already forgiven him, and has already accepted him. As soon as one makes faith even in the least a requirement for justification, one takes from such a person all the comfort of the Gospel.

  

  C. F. W. Walther
  • Doubt
  • Comfort
  • Despair

• God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • God
  • Funny
  • Religion

• Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

  

  August Derleth
  • World
  • Children
  • Accept

• I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Confidence
  • Enough
  • Criticism