Robert Blake Quotations

No, I'm not going to be found guilty,

Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'

Next year we're looking for a Round Two of Fed tightening. We're looking at 6 percent and beyond for the first half of next year.

I have every confidence that when the politicians look at the information they will lift the ban,

I'd like to give my best performance. I'd like to leave a legacy for Rosie about who I am. I'm not ready for a dog and fishing pole yet. I'd like to go to bed each night desperate to wake up each morning and create some magic.

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

I don't think anyone ever gave her a chance to breathe. To make choices about things.

I expect some discussion. There are legitimate arguments on both sides, but personally I think larger boards are cumbersome.

From the second I touched Rosie, ... it's all about her.

For the rest of your life you will have to live with that, and for the rest of my life I'll never forget it because that's the truth. I don't miss anything.

For the year before I was arrested, I was told to shut up, and I did. I don't know any more about criminal law than I do about brain surgery, so I did what I was told for a year -- while everybody said whatever they wanted to say about me, in the press, the media, on the streets, anywhere,

I always thought that her life could go differently, as long as you're on the right side of the dirt that it can happen,

I think we actually went out to see Rosie. I think Bonny even took some pictures and we said we were settling in.

I was just telling them everything I could.

I said undocumented. ... I reject the use of 'illegal' in this country.

Paid him? ... Don't put words in my mouth, junior.

Let me just talk for a minute. Geraldo Rivera did a whole show about a custody battle that didn't exist. There were lies that went on all over the place, ... I did what I was supposed to do: I didn't talk. I shut up, shut up. Then, I was locked up. And while I was in here for six or seven months -- whatever it was -- I was told not to talk, again.

I was very pleased and very lucky that the system worked, ... I had lost faith in that.

That was all a lie -- and not a little lie. That's a big lie. That's the kind of lie that God looks down and says, 'Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute.' That's a big, awful, mean, vicious lie. They don't get any worse than that. They don't get any worse than that.

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

The other day, I went to the farmers market, and everybody was hugging me and stuff, but there were people on the outside saying, 'murderer.'

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

We simply felt that the prosecution did not prove its case.

We got married to get to know each other and see if we could make it together,

Didn't I already answer this? ... That would not make sense. Nobody was breaking any laws. They weren't going to 'stake out' my property. All that would do is alert the police that there was a problem.

Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.

Don't get cute with me, chief, or we're going to start talking about your personal life,

Duffy said if he was going to do the job ? intimidate whoever it was hanging out in front of my house ? Duffy didn't want any connection with me in case there was any trouble with the police, ... He said, 'Nothing can revert back to you if I have to get a little tense with somebody.'

There was a clear understanding that Rosie belonged to me and Bonny.

It would mean a lot to me if you would sign it and get my lawyers off my back, ... All it says is you're not going to open any illegal bank accounts.

I understand, and there's also an 'or else' in it. But I don't want to get to that just yet, ... I just want you to know where I'm coming from. I got the picture of where you're coming from.

I wanted to convince him (the security) problem was real. And these were the probable reasons.

precluded from any recovery because he may not profit from his own intentional, willful ... wrongdoing.

So you think that you're going to be found guilty?

You swore to me, you promised me, you promised,

No, ... and whoever said that I will say they are rotten, foul liars to the core.

I've had problems all my life, big problems. God's been on my shoulder all of my life and I have no real conviction for why some people have trouble on one shoulder and God on the other and why some people don't, but I'm just one of those people, ... The boss has always been there and if I keep rowing, I come out on the other end.

I've had spectacular highs in my life ... And I've had terrible lows, but the boss has always been there, and if I keep rowing, I come out the other end.

The U.S. economy is probably growing at a pace that cannot be sustained over the long run. In our opinion, that means the Federal Reserve is going to need to act to restrain growth more dramatically than the market expects.

I'm not speaking about the case, ... I hear you, and I think I hear where you're going and what you're gonna say. I just want you to think clearly before you say it. I know what you're gonna say to me now. I'm getting the picture.

I'm going to get a job, I'm broke. Right now I couldn't buy spats for a hummingbird.

I have one now and I don't like it, ... When this trial's over, I'll throw it away.

I had the intention of giving her all the money she needed, so she wouldn't have to be in her business anymore,

I'm not talking about the case, ... I'm talking about my marriage to Sondra, long before the case.

I know I spent a whole a lot of money...

I know a lot about you, and what I don't know I can lie about,

I gave her $125,000 or $135,000 over a short period of time,

I didn't have much of a life, ... My kids were grown and gone. I was very, very single a loner.

I figured if I was going to jail, I didn't want to spend more than six months there... I got so brainwashed over five years of being America's Saddam Hussein that I figured if enough people want you dead, why not croak and get it over with and go see the boss.

I don't see how that could corroborate that he left the gun,

Collette Duvall is a woman, a friend of mine, that I met when I was about 50 years old, and for the next 15, 16 years we were on-and-off lovers and always friends,

You know I want to stay married to you, ... I don't want to do a custody, sue for tons of money and nobody winds up with anything but a lot of heartache and misery. It's the rest of my life. It's the rest of your life.

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

The evidence will be there is no physical evidence,