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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
Presenter
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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Comedy
Speak
Character
Enough
Hard
Good

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Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.
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In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
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If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.
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Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
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The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
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My newspaper job … is my identity.
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It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
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The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.
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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
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Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
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One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered
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You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories
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Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
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