Life Itself (2014)
Roger Ebert: Self
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Quotes
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Roger Ebert : Look at a movie that a lot of people love and you'll find something profound no matter how silly the film may seem.
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Roger Ebert : In the past 25 years I have probably seen 10,000 movies and reviewed 6,000 of them. I have forgotten most of them, I hope, but I remember those worth remembering, and they are all on the same shelf in my mind.
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Roger Ebert : There are no strangers in family: I loved and am loved.
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Roger Ebert : We're both consious of the passage of time, of it's flow, slipping through our fingers, like a long silk scarf.
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[first lines]
Roger Ebert : We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are. Where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person... and the purpose of civilization and growth, is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people. And for me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us.
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[Director Steve James is filming Roger in the hospital where he's just shown him the new chair he will use]
Steve James : So Roger, did you not pay your insurance premiums, and so you didn't get the chair till now?
Roger Ebert : [through voice synthesizer on his laptop] Steve, I'll do the jokes here.
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[Siskel and Ebert are on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" seated next to Chevy Chase]
Johnny Carson : Is there something out there that is really so bad?
Roger Ebert : I can't really recommend ¡Three Amigos!. It's the Christmas picture I like the least.
[audience groans]
Johnny Carson : This is the happy hour. I don't think I'd ask you if I knew you were gonna say that.
Roger Ebert : Chevy Chase has made a lot of good movies, and God willing, he will make a lot more good movies in the future.
Chevy Chase : With your help.
[as Ebert continues to talk, Chevy begins miming Ebert behind his back mockingly; the audience is giggling]
Roger Ebert : There is a tendency for somebody... who is naturally funny, as Chevy is, to try to get laughs by standing there and ad-libbing when somebody else is trying to talk!
