Eric Roberts Quotations

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

Sylvester Stallone is very funny and he's a great guy to hang out with.

Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

I ride my horses three to four times a week.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

But I can't remember who is in my CD player now.

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

We consider all our animals to be our kids.

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

I'm really good with fighting with my feet.

And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

There is a simple, three-step way of doing things. Give the dog a simple command - just one word, no rambling on - and explain what you have done and get the result. For example, tell the dog to sit, push its rear down and then give him lots of praise when he does it. He'll get it in the end.

There are fewer quality private companies that haven't gone public yet. As we get into fourth quarter, the number of well-developed private companies will be few and far between.

Top-notch kid, top-notch citizen. He works hard, and when you work that hard it builds confidence.

I have a lot of experience running meetings, ... I think I've learned how to make them efficient rather than heavy-handed.

It is always more difficult to win on the road.

Rescuing animals is the only way to go.

Star 80 changed my life and my career.

I'm hoping to get out of playing evil incarnate people, and hopefully play more people like myself. I hope people see me as likeable.

Whole wheat waffles; and we had hash browns made out of reconstituted potatoes.

We got away from the things that brought us our early success. The team as a whole had picked up a lot of bad habits over the summer that took us away from team play. And that started to play into what we were doing.

Unfortunately the bloom came off the rose a little bit.

When the dog goes back to the family, one of two things will happen. If the training continues, the dog thinks, 'Oh, this happens here too.' If the training comes to an end, the dog forgets it, thinking it's all over. You have to reinforce everything, and the DVD does help you to understand what has gone on at the course.

We've got a lot of companies queuing up for September. People are excited about the activity in first quarter and they're trying to get their deals done.

We felt good about where we were with only two quarters to play.

Another play I want to do is Burn This, again on stage. I'd actually love to do Burn This on-stage again - one of my hopes to make it as a movie too.

the sun starts to come up and they don't even realize that it had set yet.

So much of new knowledge and new applications and ideas come when people from different disciplines combine their expertise or their ways of thinking and looking at problems to discover new solutions, ... If we could begin to do that kind of thing and foster the collective growth in many different fields that we are involved in, I think it would be a lot more fun, as well as a lot more productive.

Barbara talks about how the kids are having fun; we're all having fun, but deep down inside she and I are both going, 'Boy, there but for the grace of God could go any of us.'

Altogether about 200 people have been employed, not counting others who had been involved in the construction and development work. We have 60 shops at the moment and there will be around 100 by the time we finish.

I told the kids at halftime they were still in the game and they had to go out there and play like they wanted it.

It is worrying that companies are applying for licences that cannot possibly be granted. It will potentially waste time and money by people attending hearings when the applicants have no chance of succeeding.

It's mostly to emphasize that we're all on the same side, ... The university's faculty-elected representatives in the senate have a voice and have a responsibility to help guide the directions of the university. Everyone should know that the decisions that are made are not made in some smoke-filled room.

Everyone has their secret spots, but they're generally over deeper water.

They can do 150 or 175 interviews, but the shortness of the day means they can't interview everyone.

But I had a white cat named Mercedes, who lived to be 16, who I got on the way home from the hospital after my automobile accident.

What fun that is, doing voices. I would do them every day if they wanted me to. It's so much fun to go to work and not shave and wear your tennis shoes and your gym clothes. As opposed to having to shave, shower, go to the gym, look good, get ready, go to makeup and hair, and all that stuff. I love doing voices. It's just so relaxing.

I'm probably one of my three biggest fans on the planet.

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

The Killers video guy was a very possessive, pompous, successful probably through illegitimate means man, and was not used to not having his way,