Quotes

“I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.” Tim Robbins

“I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.” Tim Robbins

“I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.” Tim Robbins

“If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.” Tim Robbins

“It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.” Tim Robbins

“It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.” Tim Robbins

“My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.” Tim Robbins

“New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.” Tim Robbins

“Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.” Tim Robbins

“There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.” Tim Robbins

“There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.” Tim Robbins

“You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.” Tim Robbins

“Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.” Tim Robbins

“Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.” Tim Robbins

“You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.” Tom Petty

“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.” Tom Petty

“When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.” Tom Petty

“It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.” Tom Petty

“I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.” Tom Petty

“If you're not getting older, you're dead.” Tom Petty

“When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.” Tom Petty

“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.” Tom Petty

“What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.” Tom Petty

“Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.” Tom Petty

“Most things I worry about never happen anyway.” Tom Petty

“Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.” Tom Petty

“I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.” Tom Petty

“I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.” Tom Petty

“I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.” Tom Petty

“I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.” Tom Petty