Roger Ebert Quotes

American - Critic June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. - Roger Ebert

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert

Intelligence, Lie, Confused, You, Never

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert

Great, Racism, Diversity, Religion, Grow

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. Roger Ebert

Work, Sky, Clouds, Process, Look, Like

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. Roger Ebert

Freedom, Responsibility, Speak, Speech

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. Roger Ebert

Women, Power, Time, Rose, Paris, Wealth

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. Roger Ebert

Bullying, Hate, Child, You, Prejudice

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open. Roger Ebert

Day, Window, Road, Search, You, Down

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. Roger Ebert

Woman, Tree, Me, Night, Walking, Summer

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up. Roger Ebert

Celebrate, People, Think, Opinions, Try

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. Roger Ebert

Life, Challenges, Up, Only, Cannot, Made

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My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' Roger Ebert

Good, Motto, Movies, Bad, My Motto

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. Roger Ebert

Stars, Society, Action, Think, American

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. Roger Ebert

Respect, Religion, Rights, Religions

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama. Roger Ebert

Television, Cinema, Drama, Why, Human

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable. Roger Ebert

Enough, Movie, Righteous, Must, Also

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed. Roger Ebert

Winter, Goals, Team, Hockey, Listening

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom. Roger Ebert

Freedom, Find, Run, Never, Decade, May

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience. Roger Ebert

Good, Truth, Experience, Feel, Reflect

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. Roger Ebert

Nothing, Venice, Straightforward, Seems

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. Roger Ebert

Death, Boredom, You, Existential, Like

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. Roger Ebert

Good, Short, Enough, Long, Bad, Too

One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock. Roger Ebert

Climb, Speed, New, Marvel, Many, Exist

Most of us do not consciously look at movies. Roger Ebert

Look, Movies, Us, Most

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. Roger Ebert

People, Group, Reckless, Generalizations

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. Roger Ebert

People, Think, More, Prejudice, Reason

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised. Roger Ebert

Service, Grateful, Dogs, Like, Able

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