Roger Ebert Life Itself Quotes

#1. Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Jonathan Sacks

#2. I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

Vincent Gallo

#3. 'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.

Roger Ebert

#4. When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.

Roger Ebert

#5. Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

J. Paul Getty

#6. Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

Roger Ebert

#7. I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.

Steve James

#8. For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

Jeff Greenfield

#9. Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

Roger Ebert

#10. Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Roger Ebert

#11. It's not about finding shelter in the storm but about dancing in the rain. (Zarek - Dark hunter)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Drama holds a mirror up to life, but needn't reproduce it.

Roger Ebert

#13. To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

Roger Ebert

#14. Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

Roger Ebert

#15. Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

Roger Ebert

#16. Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

Roger Ebert

#17. A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

Roger Ebert

#18. Brilliant, inspiring ... if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

Jennifer Lacy

#19. That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason.

Roger Ebert

#20. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.

Roger Ebert

#21. What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Roger Ebert

#22. Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Roger Ebert

#23. We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

Roberto Goizueta

#24. On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Roger Ebert

#25. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Roger Ebert

#26. So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

Roger Ebert

#27. Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

Roger Ebert

#28. It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

Roger Ebert

#29. The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

Roger Ebert

#30. The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#31. It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

Joshua Foer

#32. Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

Miranda Hart

#33. But I still have him in the form of the finest and highest standard of what it means to be a journalist and critic. All my life, Roger Ebert has always been the bar I've tried to reach. I never will. But his example has made me stronger through failure.

Andy Ihnatko

#34. I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.

Roger Ebert

#35. If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

Roger Ebert

#36. 'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

Richard Dawkins