Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless. "
Emilio Estevez
Lives
Meaningless
Really
Related Quotes:
" Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative. "
Emilio Estevez
Conservative
Than
More
" When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy. "
Emilio Estevez
Up
Ask
First
" People are beautiful wrecks. "
Emilio Estevez
Wrecks
Beautiful
People
" Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows. "
Emilio Estevez
Plant
Seed
Hands
" I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective. "
Emilio Estevez
Grow
Food
Perspective
" We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems. "
Emilio Estevez
Problems
Think
I Think
" We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there. "
Emilio Estevez
Out
Look
Ways
" By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. "
Emilio Estevez
Am
I Believe
I Am
" I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more. "
Emilio Estevez
Love
People
Happy
" A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man. "
Emilio Estevez
Thought
People
More
" We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. "
Emilio Estevez
Nature
Computers
Lost
" In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world. "
Emilio Estevez
Live
Current
World
" What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right? "
Emilio Estevez
Follow
Interesting
People
" I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work. "
Emilio Estevez
You
Good
Think
" We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone? "
Emilio Estevez
Fine
Great
Media
" I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible. "
Emilio Estevez
Printed
Terrible
Name
" You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up. "
Emilio Estevez
Family
You
Mother
" I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. "
Emilio Estevez
America
Believe
Think
" I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs. "
Emilio Estevez
Wine
Step
Own
" The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift. "
Emilio Estevez
My Own
Wine
Time
" You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down. "
Emilio Estevez
World
Down
Look
" I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be. "
Emilio Estevez
Kids
Years
Silly
" My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner. "
Emilio Estevez
Father
Mother
She
" We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow. "
Emilio Estevez
Way
Dare
Fail
" You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to. "
Emilio Estevez
Going
You
Who
" I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women. "
Emilio Estevez
Playing
Women
Problem
" In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that? "
Emilio Estevez
Technology
Why
Connected
" Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. "
Emilio Estevez
Hotel
Street
Walk
" There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints. "
Emilio Estevez
Budget
Doubt
Skills
" There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope. "
Emilio Estevez
Go
World
Travel