Emilio Estevez Quotes - Page 2

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I'm more like one of those Taiwanese Masis.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

People come up to me on the street and say, 'Men at Work is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life'. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.