I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Short Life Syndrome. Night watchmen in horror movies have a life expectancy of twelve seconds. SAM WAAs, Houston” — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,'… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes of your life….I suppose I must be grateful, for I seem to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Most courtroom movies feel it necessary to end with a clear-cut verdict. But 12 Angry Men never states whether the defendant is innocent or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“One of my delights in these books, on the other hand, has been to include movies not often cited as “great”—some because they are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image