Top 100 Redford's Quotes
#1. It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
Walter Salles
#2. Oh, and Knievel stared you down, and you gave in so quick." Jed laughed lowly, rubbing his hand over Redford's stomach. "You're now my cat's bitch.
Robin Saxon
#3. think Jane Fonda has done something. I could see her doing most anything. Redford's certainly been effective in pursuing his interests. Who always sings I Left My
Playboy Magazine Editors
#4. Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fonda
#5. Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.
Robert Redford
#6. 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
#7. It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford
#8. As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.
Robert Redford
#9. I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
Barry Levinson
#10. Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.
Robert Redford
#11. People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
Robert Redford
#12. Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.
Steve Erickson
#13. Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
Robert Redford
#14. Robert Redford, ha ha! He's a very attractive man and I'm not. Or Noel Edmonds, as he's a friend of mine and knows me well.
Tony Blackburn
#15. The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
Robert Redford
#16. I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.
Robert Redford
#17. Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.
Robert Redford
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.
Robert Redford
#24. 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
#25. Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god ... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life ...
Bruce Dern
#26. 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
#27. It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.
Robert Redford
#28. I think what Robert Redford established is amazing; thank god for Robert Redford. He's set an amazing example with Sundance and I hope to follow that in my own way.
John Boyega
#29. Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
Robert Redford
#30. When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep going
for no other reason than to continue. Because that's all there is to do.
Robert Redford
#31. Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.
Robert Redford
#32. There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?
Robert Redford
#33. I definitely don't like anyone messing with my friends or loved ones. I'm quick to step up to the plate if there's a problem.
Blair Redford
#34. If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.
Robert Redford
#35. I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
Robert Redford
#36. Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.
Robert Redford
#37. When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if she's a good-looking girl, and I figure out right away that she doesn't read, that's a dealbreaker for me.
Blair Redford
#38. I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started pointing out my wrinkles. I thought, you mean this is what it's gonna be about now? I'm not going to be permitted to be human?
Robert Redford
#39. You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.
Robert Redford
#40. Not everybody has that mentality and that's fine, but once Robert Redford leaves this earth - later rather than sooner - his legacy will go on.
John Boyega
#41. I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.
Robert Redford
#42. Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
Robert Redford
#43. The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?
Robert Redford
#44. I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time.
Blair Redford
#45. It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.
Robert Redford
#46. I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.
Robert Redford
#47. Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.
Robert Redford
#48. When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'
Robert Redford
#49. Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.
Robert Redford
#50. You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.
Robert Redford
#51. Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.
Pauline Kael
#52. I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.
Chin Han
#53. Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.
Robert Redford
#54. I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.
Robert Redford
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.
Robert Redford
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.
Robert Redford
#68. I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.
Robert Redford
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Think about my invitation. It's not a bad way to start off the year - on the arm of the most eligible bachelor in
school . . . See you tomorrow, Goldilocks." Trent winked and,
finally releasing my captive hand, walked away.
Anastasia Hopcus
#73. I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.
Robert Redford
#74. The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.
Robert Redford
#75. 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
#76. If it's something you can't say in front of your parents then it's probably worth saying.
Max Redford
#77. 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
#78. 'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.
Joanna Scott
#79. 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
#80. I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.
Robert Redford
#81. 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
#82. You're never going to be the same person you are right now.
Robert Redford
#83. We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
Robert Redford
#84. I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.
Robert Redford
#85. 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
#86. Robert Redford was an absolute blast to work with - a very smart, very charismatic man.
Christopher McDonald
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.
Robert Redford
#92. I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
Patrick Fugit
#93. I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
Robert Redford
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.
Robert Redford
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