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Roger Ebert Quotes

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013

Topics

Happy Be Happy You Young Way Tell

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Love Mind Frailty Noblest

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

John Patrick Shanley

Women Lunch You May Must Identify

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Life High Low Valleys Get Peaks

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

Me Outside Inspired Who Like Most

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

John Shelton Reed

People Think Voting You Know Ask

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.

Women Stand Up Tough Speak Stand

You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.

Car Football Team Rich You Nice

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

Things Different Surprising Like

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Food Learn You Know Slave Recipes

'Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

Money Career Election Office Box

It's just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.

Life Perspective People Cool World

I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

Live New York Year Place Sometimes

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