Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
-
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
-
I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
-
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
-
I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
-
I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
-
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
-
We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
-
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
-
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
-
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
-
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
-
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
-
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
-
I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.
-
The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
-
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
-
I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. That's the first thing. You want to do it.
-
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
-
After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
-
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
-
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
-
We are each other's reference point at our turning points.
-
What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.
