Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is well known for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the prison drama film The Shawshank Redemption. His other roles include Nuke LaLoosh in Bull Durham, Jacob Singer in Jacob's Ladder, Griffin Mill in The Player, and Dave Boyle in Mystic River, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and for directing films such as Dead Man Walking...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 October 1958
CityWest Covina, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.
In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedomwhen people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.
I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.
You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.
It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.
As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.
I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.