The best Quotes by Tim Robbins

The best Quotes by Tim Robbins

Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, director and producer. He is best known for portraying Andy Dufresne in the film The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and has won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award and Golden Globe for his role in Mystic River (2003) and another Golden Globe as Best Actor for The Player (1992). Robbins's other roles include starring as Lt. Samuel "Merlin" Wells in Top Gun (1986), Nuke LaLoosh in Bull Durham (1988), Erik in Erik the Viking (1989), Ed Walters in I.Q. (1994), Nick Beam in Nothing to Lose (1997) and Senator Robert Hammond in Green Lantern (2011).

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
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.

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You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.
Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in Top Gun
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Gentlemen, you are the elite. The best of the best. We'll make you better!
Mike "Viper" Metcalf in Top Gun
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Maverick: "I have to admit, I wasn't expecting an invitation back."
Admiral: "They're called 'orders', Maverick."
Top Gun - 2: Maverick
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To be the best of the best means you make mistakes and then you go on.
Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood in Top Gun
You've been busted. You lost your qualifications as section leader three times. Put in hack twice by me. With a history of high-speed passes over five air-control towers and one admiral's daughter.
Tom "Stinger" Jordan in Top Gun
Charlie: "What were you doing there?"
Maverick: "Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. I was, you know, giving him the bird."
Goose: "You know, the finger."
Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.
Tom "Stinger" Jordan in Top Gun
Goose: "I told her that you didn't even have a woman here."
Maverick: "Oh, really."
Goose: "You know what she said? Said, 'Oh, he probably doesn't have one, he's got eight.'"
Nick "Goose" Bradshaw in Top Gun
You screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog sh-t out of Hong Kong.
Tom "Stinger" Jordan in Top Gun
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption
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Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in The Shawshank Redemption
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A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in The Shawshank Redemption
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I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in The Shawshank Redemption
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You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption
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You're gonna look real funny sucking my dick with no teeth.
Captain Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption
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Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in The Shawshank Redemption
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I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in The Shawshank Redemption
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Uncle Sam. Reaching into your shirt and squeezing your tit till it's purple.
Captain Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption
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No matter how bad things get, something good is out there, just over the horizon.
Hal Jordan in Green Lantern
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
Hal Jordan in Green Lantern
You must ignore your fear. When you're afraid, you can't act. You can't act, you can't defend. You can't defend, you die.
Sinestro in Green Lantern
In order to be chosen by the ring, it is said that one must be without fear.
Tomar-Re in Green Lantern
I know that humans aren't the strongest species - or the smartest - we're young, we have a lot to learn. But we're worth saving.
Hal Jordan in Green Lantern
California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.
Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022
New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.
Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 5
We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
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Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.
For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.
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It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.
We think too much and feel too little.
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If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
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I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.
I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.
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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
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