Robin Hood Quotes

The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

Reverse Robin Hood—take from the needy and give to the greedy.

Why should Americans who can't afford yachts 26 feet or more in length be taxed to subsidize those who can? It's a reverse Robin-Hood.

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises.

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.

My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.