I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles. Roger Ebert More Quotes by Roger Ebert More Quotes From Roger Ebert But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. Roger Ebert rich facts people Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film. Roger Ebert stars taken ideas "Dirty Love" wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent... I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is. Roger Ebert film levels dirty We spend too much time hiding illness. Roger Ebert illness health too-much We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out. Roger Ebert joy trying long Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive. Roger Ebert drink-and-drive jackasses drink I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate toward gays. I've received both very brief and obscene messages, and very long and literate messages that tell me a vote for Crash was vote for homophobia. Roger Ebert gay hate long If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one. Roger Ebert nominations locks oscars My newspaper job … is my identity. Roger Ebert newspapers identity jobs Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point. Roger Ebert real dark years If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true. Roger Ebert ifs It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character. Roger Ebert comedy speak character The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that. Roger Ebert should-have law thinking I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. Roger Ebert dvds tvs may If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination. Roger Ebert eye imagination kids Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out. Roger Ebert common-sense cutting eye I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production. Roger Ebert news cockroaches depressing Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice Clay if it had been made as a documentary by someone who hated him. The fact that Clay apparently thinks this movie is worth seeing is revealing and sad, indicating that he not only lacks a sense of humor, but also ordinary human decency. Roger Ebert clay careers thinking Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners. Roger Ebert lasts nine years Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities. Roger Ebert quality cute sex