Top 100 Quotes About Robert Redford
#1. The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.
Robert Redford
#2. The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.
Robert Redford
#3. I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.
Robert Redford
#4. Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
Robert Redford
#5. He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
Robert Redford
#6. I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.
Robert Redford
#7. I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.
Robert Redford
#8. 'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.
Robert Redford
#9. Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.
Robert Redford
#10. Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.
Robert Redford
#11. Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor
James Grady
#12. It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.
Robert Redford
#13. If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.
Channing Tatum
#14. I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.
Alex Pettyfer
#15. In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.
Robert Redford
#16. Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.
Robert Redford
#17. We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.
Robert Redford
#18. When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.
Robert Redford
#19. Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.
Robert Redford
#20. Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.
Robert Redford
#21. I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.
Robert Redford
#22. Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fonda
#23. When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.
Robert Redford
#26. As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.
Robert Redford
#27. I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert Redford
#28. It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
Kevin Kline
#29. I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford
#31. I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
Robert Redford
#32. I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
Patrick Fugit
#34. I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.
Robert Redford
#35. Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it.
Robert Redford
#36. I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
Robert Redford
#37. I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made.
Robert Redford
#38. Robert Redford was an absolute blast to work with - a very smart, very charismatic man.
Christopher McDonald
#39. Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.
Robert Redford
#40. I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.
Robert Redford
#41. We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
Robert Redford
#42. It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
Walter Salles
#43. You're never going to be the same person you are right now.
Robert Redford
#44. I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.
Robert Redford
#45. It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.
Robert Redford
#46. I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.
Robert Redford
#47. I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
Robert Redford
#48. I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.
Robert Redford
#49. When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.
Robert Redford
#50. I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
Robert Redford
#51. Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.
Robert Redford
#52. Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.
Robert Redford
#54. For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.
Robert Redford
#55. Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.
Robert Redford
#56. It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.
Robert Redford
#57. [Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.
Robert Redford
#58. Between 18 and 19 years old [in the 1950s] I came to Paris. I studied art. And that experience really did change my life. I was living hand to mouth. I walked everywhere. I thought, this city is incredible but you really have to experience it by walking it.
Robert Redford
#59. I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.
Robert Redford
#60. Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
Robert Redford
#61. I didn't want the attacks to affect me. I don't believe you should be led by fear.
Robert Redford
#62. As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.
Robert Redford
#63. I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?
Robert Redford
#64. I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.
Robert Redford
#65. When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.
Robert Redford
#66. I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.
Robert Redford
#67. The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.
Robert Redford
#68. I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society ... A society without art will die.
Robert Redford
#69. I began to long for the benign indifference of Robert Redford flossing his molars.
Michael J. Fox
#70. I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.
Dyan Cannon
#71. Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.
Robert Redford
#72. The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.
Robert Redford
#73. I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or ... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.
Robert Redford
#74. From my experience in my country, America over and over again takes itself right to the brink, it puts one foot over but it never goes over. It wakes up at the last minute and says woah, and then pulls back.
Robert Redford
#75. You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
Robert Redford
#76. Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.
Robert Redford
#77. When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.
Robert Redford
#78. I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.
Robert Redford
#79. I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.
Robert Redford
#80. In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.
Dave Barry
#81. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.
Frederick Lenz
#83. Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Robert Redford
#84. Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.
Robert Redford
#85. It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.
Robert Redford
#87. Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
Robert Redford
#88. I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.
Robert Redford
#89. The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.
Robert Redford
#90. People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.
Robert Redford
#91. Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.
Robert Redford
#92. I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.
Robert Redford
#93. Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.
Robert Redford
#94. Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would ... make money.
Robert Redford
#95. Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.
Richard Preston
#96. What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford
#97. The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
Robert Redford
#98. If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.
Robert Redford
#99. People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.
Robert Redford
#100. When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
Peter Facinelli
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