Roger Ebert famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
-- Roger Ebert

#Unhappy #Crime
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
-- Roger Ebert

#Wisdom #Believe #Civilization
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
-- Roger Ebert

#Confused #Lying #Emotional
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
-- Roger Ebert

#Movie #Gambling #Film
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
-- Roger Ebert

#Criticism #Merit #Praise
When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."
-- Roger Ebert

#Girl #Sex #Mean
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
-- Roger Ebert

#Thinking #Ideas #People
Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
-- Roger Ebert

#Freedom Of Speech #Use #Speech
I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
-- Roger Ebert

#Believe #Sides #Fear Of Death
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.
-- Roger Ebert

#Fun #Unhappy #Way
Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.
-- Roger Ebert

#Dog #Memories #Events
Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.
-- Roger Ebert

#Looks #Ends #Knows
Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
-- Roger Ebert

#Art #Powerful #People
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
-- Roger Ebert

#Long #Good Movie #Enough
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
-- Roger Ebert

#Glowing #Class #Generations
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.
-- Roger Ebert

#Animal #Vegetarian Diet #Eggs
Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
-- Roger Ebert

#Inspirational #Marriage #Men
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
-- Roger Ebert

#People #Groups #Reckless
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.
-- Roger Ebert

#Plot #Audio #Remember
Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
-- Roger Ebert

#Dog #Grateful #Able
There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.
-- Roger Ebert

#Two #Laughing #Comedy
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
-- Roger Ebert

#Thinking #People #Prejudice
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.
-- Roger Ebert

#Strong Women #Law #Interesting
Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.
-- Roger Ebert

#Moving
When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.
-- Roger Ebert

#New Experiences #Two #People

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