Robert Forster Quotes & Sayings

“You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.”

“If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.”

“If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.”

“Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.”

“Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!”

“I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.”

“Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.”

“If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.”

“I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.'”

“First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.”