Robert Redford Quotes

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford

Environmental, Important, Put

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.
Robert Redford

Technology, Mind, Hard

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Robert Redford

Food, Good, Health

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford

Politics, Art, Soul

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
Robert Redford

Past, Dangerous, Move

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
Robert Redford

Money, Parents, Book

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
Robert Redford

Ideas, Voices, Visions

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert Redford

Time, Good, Remember

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.
Robert Redford

Person, Facelift

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.
Robert Redford

Live, Nothing, Fact

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.
Robert Redford

Life, Person, Together

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
Robert Redford

Political, Anywhere, Utah

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.
Robert Redford

Money, True, End

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.
Robert Redford

Perfect, Become, Golf

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
Robert Redford

Life, Character, Darkness

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
Robert Redford

Society, Die, Culture

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
Robert Redford

Life, Today, Children

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford

Good, Art, Yourself

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
Robert Redford

Film, Golf, Interested

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
Robert Redford

Point, Story, Emotions

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.
Robert Redford

Control, Same, Here

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
Robert Redford

Life, Leave, Days

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
Robert Redford

Life, Nature, Sports

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
Robert Redford

Talent, Started, Discovery

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
Robert Redford

Technology, Big, Story

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Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 18, 1937

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