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‘It will obliterate your senses!’ reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
No matter what they’re charging to get in, it’s worth more to get out.
Roger Ebert1942–2013Review of Armageddon (1 July 1998)
No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
The MPAA rates this PG-13. It is too vulgar for anyone under 13, and too dumb for anyone over 13.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
It’s said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn’t care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask.
Roger Ebert1942–2013The Great Movies Essay Collections, Vol. II (2005), p. 94
- Pride
I have been described as a snob on this issue. But snobs exclude; they do not include. To exclude b&w from your choices is an admission that you have a closed mind, a limited imagination, or are lacking in taste.
Roger Ebert1942–2013First published in the “Movie Answer Man” column (25 July 2004)
When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least, not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
Sally Fieldborn 1946Said during Field’s Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in 1984’s Places in the Heart
- Acting
I’m not sure how much movies should entertain. I’ve always been more interested in movies that scar.
David Fincherborn 1962
I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George [Lucas]. I took too many drugs to remember.
Carrie Fisher1956–2016In a Vanity Fair interview when asked how she got the part in Star Wars
- Comedy
I found a calling. A life in storytelling. An identity in pretending to be other people.
Harrison Fordborn 1942Life Achievement Award acceptance speech, The Actor Awards (1 March 2026)
- Acting
Ours is a tough business to get into. In my case, it’s been a tough business to get out of, thank God.
Harrison Fordborn 1942Life Achievement Award acceptance speech, The Actor Awards (1 March 2026)
- Acting
- Comedy
I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.
Vincent Galloborn 1961
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner1901–1963