Tim Robbins Quotes

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.