Quotes by Roger Ebert

About Roger Ebert:

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collections of reviews.
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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

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All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

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When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

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It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's i...

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Intelligence quotes by Roger Ebert, UberQuotes

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

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

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What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

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If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

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To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

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Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

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Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

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Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

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Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

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All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the t...

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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...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRoger Ebert
  • DescriptionAmerican film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
  • AliasesRoger Joseph Ebert
  • BornJune 18, 1942
  • DiedApril 4, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Critic; Journalist; Reporter; Writer
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Criticism