Edward G Robinson Quotes

#1. I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.

William Sanderson

#2. I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

Anne Rice

#3. I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

Patrick Macnee

#4. I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#5. The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

Woody Allen

#6. To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being ... it's like taking on another person's life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

Edward G. Robinson

#7. Memory is a poet, not a historian.

Paul Geraldy

#8. The third thing you need to consider is making the application actionable, that is to say, making sure that as well as form it has function too. Allow the user to see clearly what actions are available, and where they need to go to get where they want.

Ian Brooks

#9. Life is a character-building opportunity that we all volunteered for.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

Alan Brien

#11. In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

Edward G. Robinson

#12. I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

Edward G. Robinson

#13. I love the Miami atmosphere.

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

Jennifer Coolidge

#15. Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Rod Stewart

#16. Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.

Derek Bok

#17. Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

Robert Fulghum

#18. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

Edward G. Robinson

#19. I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

Jessica Simpson

#20. Nothing human is foreign to us

Edward G. Robinson

#21. Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

Edward G. Robinson

#22. I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Edward G. Robinson

#23. A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

John Mackey

#24. I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5 or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

Edward G. Robinson

#25. The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

Edward G. Robinson

#26. Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

Mira Sorvino

#27. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Edward G. Robinson

#28. Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

Edward G. Robinson

#29. Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.

Delbert L. Stapley

#30. I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Edward G. Robinson

#31. Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

Dinaw Mengestu