Roger Ebert Quotes

12 quotes

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

“Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.”

"I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization."

on Empathy

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

on Life

"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it."

on Art

"All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it."

on Faith

"We laugh, that we may not cry."

on Emotion

"I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear"

on Faith

"No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out."

on Life

"If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something."

on Faith

"There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom."

on Death

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

on Emotions

"We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars."

on Emotion