Tim Robbins Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

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

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.