Tony Robinson Quotes

I love being scared, and I always have done. When I was younger, I was always reading books about the paranormal, UFOs, and crop circles. I liked the idea of people seeing faces in walls and twins that could communicate with each other telepathically. I really believed it, too!

There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

I don't believe that people die and come back as spirits, but I think there might be some unexplained events.

I believe in ghosts now because of New Orleans. I never did before. I was so skeptical, but now I've seen one, which sounds insane, but it's true.

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.

I see ghosts all the time. Genuinely. I think I've seen about four.

I believe in ghosts.

I have many times encountered spirits but the reason I don't talk about these things in person is because I feel the people might think that I am doing this for publicity of my films and I also feel that it belittles my experiences. Hence, I don't talk about it.

I've talked to ghosts once. For me, it makes sense for them to be real because of physics. In physics, you can't destroy energy; it can only be conserved.

I was lucky that I had parents that had had supernatural experiences, so I could talk to them openly without them looking at me as some lunatic.

I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words.

I'm not usually the guy who believes in aliens, UFOs or superstitions.

I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

I've never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there's some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be.

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I see ghosts.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.