Latest Robert Greene Quotes from Interviews

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• I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Fiction, Patient

• The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.

  Robert Greene

  Hate, Firsts, Actors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.

  Robert Greene

  Mom, Running, Smart

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, Serendipity, Way

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Creating, Fiction

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

  Robert Greene

  Art, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Games, Evil, Manipulation

  Source: allhiphop.com

• You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

  Robert Greene

  Competition, Fearless, Moments

  Source: allhiphop.com

• When it comes to fertility, there are so may things that have to go right. In any one individual, there might be one major problem and two minor ones or no major ones and seven minor ones. Throw in another person's physiology, and it's complicated. I try to give people the knowledge that they can make as many changes as they want.

  Robert Greene

  Two, People, Giving

  Source: www.blisstree.com

• When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.

  Robert Greene

  Fighting, People, Choices

  Source: dilanka.cc

• I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, First Love, Want

  Source: dilanka.cc

• I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Thinking, Might

  Source: dilanka.cc

• The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing, I don't know if I'm going to have to look what's in store for me at that level but fortunately, I broke in earlier.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Looks, Levels

  Source: dilanka.cc

• I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.

  Robert Greene

  People, Giving, World

  Source: dilanka.cc

• I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.

  Robert Greene

  Exercise, Years, Priorities

  Source: dilanka.cc

• I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

  Robert Greene

  Ideas, Trying, Intense

  Source: dilanka.cc

• I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.

  Robert Greene

  Discipline, People, Interesting

  Source: dilanka.cc

• I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.

  Robert Greene

  Who I Am, Things In Life, Should

  Source: dilanka.cc

• I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.

  Robert Greene

  Hurt, People, Wish

  Source: dilanka.cc

• It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.

  Robert Greene

  People, Different, Path

  Source: dilanka.cc

• If marriage isn't something for me, but I like living with someone or being committed, I can choose this other path as long as she's okay with it but I would hardly say that that should be what other people do. Some people want that, that written paper, that commitment and that means something to them. And I don't in the least look down on it.

  Robert Greene

  Mean, Commitment, Long

  Source: dilanka.cc

• What's good for me is certainly not good for other people.

  Robert Greene

  People

  Source: dilanka.cc

• If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going to love it but you can survive the boredom because you're connected to something that excites you.

  Robert Greene

  Practice, Boredom, Music Love

  Source: dilanka.cc

• Everything is personal.

  Robert Greene

  Source: dilanka.cc