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
You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.
Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.
There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.
Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.