“Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily hav...” — Tim Robbins Quote

“Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.”

“There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.”

“Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.”

“I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.”

“You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.”

“I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.”

“Few years ago when I visited a palliative care centre in Chennai for the first time, it completely moved me. It's an emotionally draining experience. I saw and met patients who were abandoned by their families, and there is complete sense of hopelessness. Ever since, I have been a supporter for the need for funding and awareness of palliative care.”

“The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.”

“Most models are emotionally abandoned. They need me. I'm their mother.”

“Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.”

“We tapped into the abandoned mine land fund to pay for pensions, and that money was to clean up the mines, not make up the difference of what the companies stole from workers.”

“Even the humble black grandmother, who sings in the church choir and struggles to raise a grandchild abandoned to her care, must assert ideological liberalism in order to make others comfortable about her blackness.”