Tim Robbins Quotes - Page 2

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• I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

  Tim Robbins

  Blue, Blood, Criminals

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• If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

  Tim Robbins

  Wise, Running, Ideas

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• It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.

  Tim Robbins

  Dying, Busy

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• It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

  Tim Robbins

  Scripts, Difficult, Turns

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• I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

  Tim Robbins

  Actors, Research, Enough

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• It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

  Tim Robbins

  Father, Kids, Guy

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• I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

  Tim Robbins

  Views, Belief, Sometimes

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• Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

  Tim Robbins

  Running, Government, Accepting

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• There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

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  Country, Heart, Numbers

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• I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

  Tim Robbins

  Sports, Baseball, Republican

  2003 In a letter to Dale Petroskey, president of the National BaseballHall of Fame, after his appearance there was cancelled when he criticized President GeorgeWBush, Apr.

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• I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

  Tim Robbins

  Night, Eight, Long Ago

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• If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

  Tim Robbins

  Integrity, Finding Yourself, Compromise

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• Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

  Tim Robbins

  War, Iraq, Cost

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• Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

  Tim Robbins

  Film, Abandoned

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• I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

  Tim Robbins

  Kids, Drug, Used

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• I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

  Tim Robbins

  Care, Stuff, Affair

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• I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

  Tim Robbins

  Sports, Fans, March

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• There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

  Tim Robbins

  Idiot, Clown, Shows

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• I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

  Tim Robbins

  Confidence, Thinking, Criticism

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• You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

  Tim Robbins

  Fighting, Enjoy, Know How

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• New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

  Tim Robbins

  New York, Doe, Theater

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• As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

  Tim Robbins

  Saving Private Ryan, Battle, Would Be

  2003 Speech to the National Press Club,Washington DC,15 Apr.

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• You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

  Tim Robbins

  Self, Trying, Irony

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• It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

  Tim Robbins

  Talking, Progressive, Projects

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• There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

  Tim Robbins

  Relationship, Sexy, Character

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Feb. 8-14)" by Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2013.

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