Eric Roberts Quotes

• "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."
• "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."
• "As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
• "But I can't remember who is in my CD player now."
• "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."
• "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."
• "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."
• "Every time there was ever a white cat that I saw that was homeless, I would take it."
• "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 don't try to second guess people."
• "I enjoy playing anyone interesting."
• "I go to bed early."
• "I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
• "I have another movie called National Security with Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn."
• "I like to feed my squirrels."
• "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."
• "I work from the inside out as well as the outside in; sometimes simultaneously; sometimes separately; sometimes I only have to use one or the other."
• "I'd love to do more music videos."
• "I'm a real bore."
• "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."
• "I'm really good with fighting with my feet."
• "I've been in over 100 movies and three TV series and I think anybody who's heard of me probably knows what I look like."
• "My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them."
• "My grandfather always had horses."
• "My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels."
• "My wife is the most loving, kind, and considerate person I've ever met with animals."
• "Rescuing animals is the only way to go."
• "So she arrived pregnant and now my wife has a horse. The mom is named Silk and the boy is named Sagan, after Carl Sagan."
• "Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident."
• "Star 80 changed my life and my career."
• "Sylvester Stallone is very funny and he's a great guy to hang out with."
• "The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals."
• "The last book I read I will talk about would be Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier."
• "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 are already 2 billion people too many on this planet, and god knows how many animals there are that are overflowing."
• "There are animals that are bred to be sold, but all the other animals need love too."
• "There's also Snow Falling On Cedars, which I'm reading now, and it's good. I hope it has a good ending, because if it doesn't I'll be really mad."
• "They say an actor plays roles best that are not him. I hope that's the case with me."
• "We also have between eight to fifteen squirrels that eat out of our hand every day."
• "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."
• "Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking."
• "What I use a lot is Sandy Miser's repetition technique, where you hear your cue and repeat it out loud with your line. It's like active listening."
• "Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun."
• "Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians."