Quotes by Robert Evans

“I didnt want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.”

“Its tough to get up in your twenties, tougher in the thirties, your reflexes arent as good in your forties, in the fifties youre really worried, in your sixties your legs hurt too much and I hit seventy.”

“I wont lie. I tried to lie to a girl about my age. She started laughing right in my face and said, I know more about you than you do. Thats not good.”

“Im not a Sundance guy either. Ive never had applause lasting over two minutes in my life but we had a 17-minute standing ovation.”

“I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.”

“Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.”

“I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you dont have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.”

“Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.”

“Ive always believed in going after writers. Ive been criticized for it to. Ive turned down big stars for things and Ive lost friends over it.”

“In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.”

“Well see if its sitting the way they want it. And well take some depth readings.”

History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized the influence of drugs on historys great thinkers, and covered up the impact of prostitution and insults on human development.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.