Quotes by Robert Redford

“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”

“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”

“We do not own this place, we are just passengers”

“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt”

“Ideas arent real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.”

“People have been so busy relating to how I look, its a miracle I didnt become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.”

“We’ve poisoned the air, the water, and the land.In our passion to control nature,things have gone out of control.Progress from now on has to mean something different.We’re running out of resources andwe are running out of time”

“Never revisit the past, thats dangerous. You know, move on.”

“Because it was always going to be this hard to stop.”

“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”

Well theres these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.

Well theres these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people

When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep goingfor no other reason than to continue. Because that’s all there is to do.

I guess I dont like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, youre delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you dont like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, thats acting.

The way you really find out about the performers seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I dont have a lot of respect for.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because youre playing against yourself and nature.

Ive always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldnt be talking about because Im an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made.

Well first of all its a business and its a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, thats getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I have no regrets, because Ive done everything I could to the best of my ability.