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• I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

  Tim Robbins

  People, Want, Inspired

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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'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.

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  Scripts, Difficult, Turns

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

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  Dying, Busy

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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.

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  Views, Belief, Sometimes

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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.

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  Father, Kids, Guy

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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.

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  Actors, Research, Enough

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• Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

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

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  Integrity, Finding Yourself, Compromise

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

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  Night, Eight, Long Ago

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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.

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  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.

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  Kids, Drug, Used

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

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  Care, Stuff, Affair

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• In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

  Tim Robbins

  Country, People, Speech

  "A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation". Tim Robbins' speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., archive.commondreams.org. April 15, 2003.

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• I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

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  Mean Girls, Party, Sake

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• I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

  Tim Robbins

  Thinking, Credit, Filmmaker

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• I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

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  Feet, Issues, Important

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• I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer.

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  Girl, Baby, Mean

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• Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

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  Clever, Should Have, Cities

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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.

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  Confidence, Thinking, Criticism

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• Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

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  Running, Men, Graves

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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.

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  Idiot, Clown, Shows

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