Robert Redford famous quotes

04-17-2025

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
-- Robert Redford

#Food #Healthy #Complaining
When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.
-- Robert Redford

#Taken #Successful #Thinking
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
-- Robert Redford

#Technology #Stories #Film
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
-- Robert Redford

#Nature #Thinking #Earth Day
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
-- Robert Redford

#Book #Night #Childhood
Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
-- Robert Redford

#Weekend #Inspire #Mind
I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.
-- Robert Redford

#Fake People #I Am What I Am #Facelifts
Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.
-- Robert Redford

#Strong #Vision #Want
I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.
-- Robert Redford

#Point Break #People #Hardship
Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together - politician, advocate, rancher, scientist, and citizen. Only by doing this will the United States move forward and be a leader in environmental issues and ensure sustainability to our delicate ecosystem.
-- Robert Redford

#Moving #Ecosystems #Issues
I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.
-- Robert Redford

#Moving #Thinking #Keep Moving
I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
-- Robert Redford

#Independent #Thinking #Documentaries
Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.
-- Robert Redford

#Doors #People #Hollywood
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
-- Robert Redford

#Art #New York #Years
For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.
-- Robert Redford

#Race #Expression #Car
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
-- Robert Redford

#Art #Seductive #Soul
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
-- Robert Redford

#Opportunity #People #Together
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.
-- Robert Redford

#Sarcastic #Attention #Lightning
San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. Itâ€™s the most beautiful place in the world.
-- Robert Redford

#Beautiful #Cities #World
Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.
-- Robert Redford

#Risk
Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
-- Robert Redford

#Reality #Keys #Stories
What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.
-- Robert Redford

#Choices #Results #Changed
Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.
-- Robert Redford

#Golf #Perfect #Clubs
I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.
-- Robert Redford

#Adventure #Students #Kindergarten
As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.
-- Robert Redford

#Thinking #People #Together
What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.
-- Robert Redford

#Book #Writing #Stories

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