Richard Corliss quote: "Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!"

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS

Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial ...
RICHARD CORLISS

We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min...
RICHARD CORLISS

A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ...
RICHARD CORLISS

No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 ...
RICHARD CORLISS

The visual team of 'Blade Runner' - one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without mu...
RICHARD CORLISS

In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This ...
RICHARD CORLISS

'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and m...
RICHARD CORLISS

Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in th...
RICHARD CORLISS

Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies w...
RICHARD CORLISS

The music was the best thing about the Four Seasons and the central asset of the 'Jersey Boys...
RICHARD CORLISS

In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Z...
RICHARD CORLISS

Casey Kasem not only played the music of the stars, he also reached the sunniest-sounding celebrity ...
RICHARD CORLISS

In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 ...
RICHARD CORLISS

After two terms as California's Governator, Schwarzenegger slipped comfortably back into picture...
RICHARD CORLISS

On 'American Top 40' the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, throu...
RICHARD CORLISS

World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints ...
RICHARD CORLISS

I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of F...
RICHARD CORLISS

Starring Russell Crowe as the Patron of the First Ark, 'Noah' had affronted some Christian l...
RICHARD CORLISS

Bond, especially Connery's Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes - ...
RICHARD CORLISS

'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries i...
RICHARD CORLISS

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
RICHARD CORLISS

It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. Bu...
RICHARD CORLISS

The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the ...
RICHARD CORLISS

I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European d...
RICHARD CORLISS

Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Que...
RICHARD CORLISS

Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.
RICHARD CORLISS

'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve...
RICHARD CORLISS

Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Dail...
RICHARD CORLISS

How many mothers have emerged from a family trip to a Disney movie and been obliged to explain the f...
RICHARD CORLISS

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist
RICHARD CORLISS

Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar c...
RICHARD CORLISS

For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Throughout the movies' golden age, the Western enriched Hollywood financially and artistically. ...
RICHARD CORLISS

At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-...
RICHARD CORLISS

You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff ...
RICHARD CORLISS

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the...
RICHARD CORLISS

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era...
RICHARD CORLISS

The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ...
RICHARD CORLISS

'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's ...
RICHARD CORLISS

To transport picturegoers to a unique place in the glare of the earth, in the darkness of the heart ...
RICHARD CORLISS

'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its futu...
RICHARD CORLISS

Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wond...
RICHARD CORLISS

In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it w...
RICHARD CORLISS

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns...
RICHARD CORLISS

As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who s...
RICHARD CORLISS

'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an a...
RICHARD CORLISS

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.
RICHARD CORLISS

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV pro...
RICHARD CORLISS

A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we he...
RICHARD CORLISS

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball i...
RICHARD CORLISS

Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber...
RICHARD CORLISS

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations on...
RICHARD CORLISS

By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with a role more than any other actor sin...
RICHARD CORLISS

One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out d...
RICHARD CORLISS

On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Ni...
RICHARD CORLISS

The line readings of Portman and Lloyd are often flat, or flat-out wrong.
RICHARD CORLISS

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Ho...
RICHARD CORLISS

Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-...
RICHARD CORLISS

A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all compute...
RICHARD CORLISS

You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a d...
RICHARD CORLISS

The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, ...
RICHARD CORLISS

The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.
RICHARD CORLISS

Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured vi...
RICHARD CORLISS

From her first superheroine role in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' - which earned $275 million gl...
RICHARD CORLISS

'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' while not nearly the masterpiece proclaimed by many critic...
RICHARD CORLISS

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry.
RICHARD CORLISS

The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at pu...
RICHARD CORLISS

The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic ho...
RICHARD CORLISS

Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row ...
RICHARD CORLISS

'Under the Skin' is handsome, in a dour way, but inert - a cunning experiment that died in t...
RICHARD CORLISS

Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child&...
RICHARD CORLISS

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, om...
RICHARD CORLISS

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one&...
CORLISS LAMONT

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movem...
CORLISS LAMONT

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psyc...
CORLISS LAMONT

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere e...
CORLISS LAMONT

It makes no more sense to postulate a special brain-soul in order to account for the activities of t...
CORLISS LAMONT

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice...
CORLISS LAMONT

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, ...
CORLISS LAMONT

On senior night our girls wanted to come in and play hard. We'll get North again at Smoky Mountain a...
CATHY CORLISS

We got everybody involved and that's what we're about -- the team concept. We have a philosophy wher...
CATHY CORLISS

That's something we haven't found a way to do this year - win ugly games. This was an ugly one, but ...
CORLISS WILLIAMSON

We haven't been finding a way to win ugly games but we found a way to get this win and we really nee...
CORLISS WILLIAMSON

I think the housing market certainly fired up real quick, maybe too quickly, and now it's probably j...
IRA CORLISS

Yes, it was a good year. It could have been a lot better.
IRA CORLISS

I think now that the city population has exceeded 65,000, the commercial-retail growth is beginning ...
IRA CORLISS

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH

Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON

God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT

Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON

I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA

The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL

On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL

...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL

It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL

When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL

the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL

This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL

Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL

The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL

Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL

These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL

MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL

...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON

Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!

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Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!

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