Quotes by Roger Ebert

Explore a curated collection of 41 quotes by Roger Ebert. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It give — Roger Ebert
Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are — Roger Ebert
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is — Roger Ebert
Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you. — Roger Ebert
Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could hav — Roger Ebert
We laugh, that we may not cry. — Roger Ebert
To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dra — Roger Ebert
Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it? — Roger Ebert
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 fa — Roger Ebert
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In — Roger Ebert
How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," about the planet where t — Roger Ebert
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. — Roger Ebert
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 — Roger Ebert
I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can un — Roger Ebert
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able — Roger Ebert
On Hayao MiyazakiI told Miyazaki I love the "gratuitous motion" in his films; instead of every movement being dictated b — Roger Ebert
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. — Roger Ebert
So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life. — Roger Ebert
It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it. — Roger Ebert
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out. — Roger Ebert