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Look Quotes

On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.

The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.

I try not to look for messages in films.

Quotes by Robert Duvall

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Quotes by Robert Duvall

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Quotes by Robert Duvall

With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.

Quotes by Robert Crumb

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So...

Quotes by Robert Crumb

I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.

Quotes by Robert Crumb

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.

Quotes by Robert Culp

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Quotes by Robert D. Kaplan

Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.

Quotes by Robert Dale Owen

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

Quotes by Robert Dallek

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

Quotes by Robert Caro

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Quotes by Robert Cecil

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Quotes by Robert Cecil

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while...

Quotes by Robert C. Merton

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Quotes by Robert Bresson

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

Quotes by Robert Atkins

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the...

Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

Quotes by Rob Zombie

If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.

Quotes by Robbie Lawler

Frequently Asked Questions

What different senses of "look" appear on this page?
The quotes use "look" in a few ways - looking directly at something to understand it, looking back on one's life without regret, and describing how situations can look similar across different contexts. For more general reflections in this everyday-word style, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote about having no regrets?
Yes: "I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now." For more reflections on life's path, see Life.
Does this page include any perspective on filmmaking?
Yes: "You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates" makes a direct statement about how film should be watched and understood.
Is there anything here about children or education?
One quote touches on how children facing poverty attend schools not designed to meet their needs, noting that marginalized children's circumstances can look alike across different countries. For more uplifting reflections along these lines, see Good.
Is there a quote about writing or editing here?
Yes, one describes the habit of rewriting books multiple times before submitting them, and taking another look after an editor's feedback, with the reminder to keep on trying. For more first-person reflections, see Me quotes.

Pair these with our Good quotes for a more upbeat perspective, or Like quotes on personal taste and preference.