Roger Ebert Quotes

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

Roger Ebert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodHateStupidActionComedyBad

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

John Malkovich

GoodMeSomeoneYouBadKnow

Jon Tester no longer can say that he supports the principles and values of the people of Montana.

Matt Rosendale

PeopleValuesSayPrinciplesMontana

I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home.

Trey Burke

LoveHomeMusicPeopleVideo Games

Richard Leacock and I ran into a guy who knew how to carve up a camera, and we had him carve one up for us. We had him chop it down and change the gears from metal to plastic, which would cut down on the sound it made when it was running.

Robert Drew

ChangeCameraDownSoundPlasticUp

Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did ,and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.

David Thewlis

GreatPeopleMeBookProudYou

How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Black And WhitePeopleBlackLanguage

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Bobby Darin

HopeGoKnifeWillOutWell

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

Peter Benchley

SeaWritingEnoughTelevisionLucky

Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.

Shai Agassi

JobMissionYouBackGoOnce

Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as possible, which is what the best films are?

Sebastian Faulks

BestWordsPeopleYouFeelingsWhy

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Mariella Frostrup

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