28 Quotes by Vincent Canby

Lives—even the most carefully managed— are voids filled with echoes

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

She may be the only leading lady in America today with the ability to cross one eye without moving the other.

Marlon Brando has finally connected with a character and a film that need not embarrass America's most complex, most idiosyncratic film actor.

All of us knew the brownstone stoops in a Warner Brothers movie as well as we knew our own front porches.