Emilio Estevez Quotes

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

What’s the level of compromise for making that kind of money? How far do I have to sell my soul? What’s the price of that? And I don’t know if I want to make those kind of compromises any more. I think I’m a different person. 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.

I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don’t have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.

The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it’s there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don’t even have to make any effort.

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.

People come up to me on the street and say, ‘Men at Work is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life’. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen.

We don’t think about pilgrimage in this country. We don’t think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it’s probably exactly what we need.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We’ve left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven’t been minding the store.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called ‘followers.’ Talk about false idolatry, right?

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

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.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We’re more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.