Tim Robbins Quotes

By any means necessary.

You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back.

You can try and kill my body but you cannot kill my cause.

You’ve got to put your life on the line to show that you are part of the struggle.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it - no matter what.

There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!