Quote

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Roger Ebert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Values
Family
Also
Proudly
Patriotic
Liberal
Reasonable
Stand
American

More quotes by Roger Ebert

Image
There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
Roger Ebert
Image
My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.
Roger Ebert
Image
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
Roger Ebert
Image
Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
Roger Ebert
Image
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.
Roger Ebert
Image
Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
Roger Ebert
Image
The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.
Roger Ebert
Image
Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.
Roger Ebert
Image
Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
Roger Ebert
Image
Socrates told us, the unexamined life is not worth living. I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
Roger Ebert
Image
Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
Roger Ebert
Image
Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.
Roger Ebert
Image
To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?
Roger Ebert
Image
But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
Roger Ebert
Image
I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
Roger Ebert
Image
Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
Roger Ebert
Image
We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
Roger Ebert
Image
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert
Image
Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
Roger Ebert
Image
Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.
Roger Ebert