People Quotes by Roger Ebert

Some of these people make my skin crawl.

— Roger Ebert

What makes people interesting is the spirit that shines through.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

— Roger Ebert

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

— Roger Ebert

Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm…

— Roger Ebert

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

— Roger Ebert

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

— Roger Ebert

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

— Roger Ebert

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can…

— Roger Ebert

Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the…

— Roger Ebert

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

— Roger Ebert

A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest,…

— Roger Ebert

All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very…

— Roger Ebert

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to…

— Roger Ebert

The right really wants to punish you for having an opinion. And I think both the left and the right should celebrate…

— Roger Ebert

I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they…

— Roger Ebert

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do?…

— Roger Ebert

The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away…

— Roger Ebert

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You…

— Roger Ebert

Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of…

— Roger Ebert

When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining…

— Roger Ebert

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already…

— Roger Ebert

We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as,…

— Roger Ebert

When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have…

— Roger Ebert

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep…

— Roger Ebert

The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing…

— Roger Ebert

[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as…

— Roger Ebert

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

— Roger Ebert

Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

— Roger Ebert

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

— Roger Ebert

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have…

— Roger Ebert

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait…

— Roger Ebert

I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people…

— Roger Ebert

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

— Roger Ebert

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

— Roger Ebert

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

— Roger Ebert

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just…

— Roger Ebert