Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential… — 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
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of… — 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
Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've been around a long time, and young men, if there is one thing I know, it is that the only way… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never… — 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
Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share
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
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
