Roger Ebert Quotes

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

Gene Siskel used to describe old-age makeup as making young actors look like turtles.

As a child I simply did not notice whether a movie was in color or not. The movies themselves were such an overwhelming mystery that if they wanted to be in black and white, that was their business.

Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

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

Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare. Sparks also said his novels are like Greek Tragedies. This may actually be true. I can't check it out because, tragically, no really bad Greek tragedies have survived.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

2001: A Space Odyssey is not about a goal, but about a quest, a need.

"How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen."

Inside every sadist is a masochist, cringing to taste his own medicine.

One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are sexually attracted to one another. They may not act on the knowledge.

They may file it away for future reference. They may deny it. They may never see each other again. But the moment has happened, and for an instant all other considerations are insignificant.

you are never warmer than when you have been cold.