Quotes from Roger Ebert

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.