Roger Ebert Way Quotations

The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?

While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away,

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.