577 Quotes by Roger Ebert

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.