Edward G. Robinson

Quotes

• “You can tell them that I live passionately. In fact, you may go further and say that unless a human being lives passionately, he may almost as well be dead. Now passion and sex are usually confused, but life without a passion for living is a pretty dull procedure. I have a passion for acting, for music, for art and, thank God, I have the opportunity to express myself in the first and to indulge myself in the other two.”
• “You know, I've always figured the waiting is what I get paid for. The acting I do free.”
• “He's the greatest bull artist in the world—and only occasionally the greatest artist in the world.”
• “Did it ever occur to anyone how boring his pictures are?”
• “I'm told he's no longer a hero and he could have done more for the Jews, that he had a mistress. Well, count up the score. He turned the twentieth century around; without him, I think we'd all be ruled by a commissariat.”
• “He may yet turn out to have greatness in him despite himself. I think his kind of ambition is indeed a grievous thing; now that he cannot be reelected, maybe he'll let his humanity emerge. There simply has to be more to the man than he lets us see.”

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