Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

Tim Robbins

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• Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Live
  • Government
  • Find

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Today
  • Best
  • inspirational

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Music
  • Like
  • Used

• American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

  

  Jack Germond
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Never
  • See
  • Generation

• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Stupidity
  • Sent

• In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Language
  • Act
  • System

• In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • Name
  • Noble

• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Voice
  • View

• Quarterbacks are always ready.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Always
  • Ready

• I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Baseball

• The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Secret

• One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job

• Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Amazing
  • Kill
  • Rage

• Having been frequently ignored or abandoned leaves them clinging and needy, even with the people who have abused them. Having been chronically beaten, molested, and otherwise mistreated, they cannot help but define themselves as defective and worthless. They come by their self-loathing, sense of defectiveness, and worthlessness honestly. Was it any surprise that they didn’t trust anyone? Finally, the combination of feeling fundamentally despicable and overreacting to slight frustrations makes it difficult for them to make friends.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Frustrations
  • Defectiveness

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Credit

• It's been four years. It's been the best four years. It's been wonderful, it's been a privilege to work under Steven Moffat. But I think when you gotta go, you gotta go It's sad, I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss Comic-Con as well. It wasn't an easy decision, but I dunno, you can't play it forever. And, look, they'll get someone amazing and brilliant, and that's the great thing about the show. It continues, and it will get bigger and better. And you'll forget about me.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Decision
  • Privilege
  • Miss

• I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Means
  • Achieved
  • Civil

• I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Deserve
  • Credit
  • Filmmaker