Robert Evans
Birthday: 29 June 1930, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Robert J. Shapera
Height: 175 cm
Raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side (his father was a dentist with a thriving practice in Harlem), Evans began his show-business career as a teenage radio act or. After flopping in his first at ...Show More
If I wrote the truth of what I know, the book would be 10,000 pages.
If I wrote the truth of what I know, the book would be 10,000 pages.
. . . I believe that rules are made to be broken but I believe that vows made between two people mus Show more
. . . I believe that rules are made to be broken but I believe that vows made between two people must be adhered to. And I got married two weeks ago, and my vows are what we're talking about now: the four Ls. My vows are very simple: like, love, in love and lust--if we are to make our union work, I vow to adhere to at least two of them every day. One of them has to be like, because like is very important. And if you can't, something's wrong. Hide
When a director hires a producer, you're in deep shit. A director needs a boss, not a yes man.
When a director hires a producer, you're in deep shit. A director needs a boss, not a yes man.
When I went out to L.A., I knew one thing: property is king. No one wanted me--there's nothing worse Show more
When I went out to L.A., I knew one thing: property is king. No one wanted me--there's nothing worse than a pretty boy actor who wants to be a producer, especially a lousy actor. And I bought a property called "The Detective" to get my foot in the door. So I went to 20th Century-Fox and demanded a three-picture deal and got it. Without the property, they wouldn't have given me anything. Hide
I've always been a gambler; I've always taken risks. Anyone who says you will always win if you take Show more
I've always been a gambler; I've always taken risks. Anyone who says you will always win if you take a risk is a liar, because it's not a risk then. Hide
Success means never having to admit you're unhappy.
Success means never having to admit you're unhappy.
The producer is the most important element of a film. It's the producer who hires the director . . . Show more
The producer is the most important element of a film. It's the producer who hires the director . . . The producer buys the property, he hires the writer, the director; he's involved in hiring all the actors, involved with production, costs, post-production and involved with marketing. He's on a film for four or five years and gets very little credit for it. Hide
It's not just what you pay the actors, everything goes up when you do it [in Hollywood], it just gro Show more
It's not just what you pay the actors, everything goes up when you do it [in Hollywood], it just grows and grows. But the English artists I was working with cared more about what they were doing than how much they were paid to do it. It's not that way in America, I hate to say it but it's true. Hide
I didn't hang around with famous people . . . they hung around with me.
I didn't hang around with famous people . . . they hung around with me.
[speaking to women] If you're ever approached with the line, "You ought to be in pictures, I'm a pro Show more
[speaking to women] If you're ever approached with the line, "You ought to be in pictures, I'm a producer", tell the guy to fuck off. He's a fraud, and the pictures he wants to put you in don't play in theaters. Hide
A love story could be for an evening, a week, a month, it could be forever. There is a big differenc Show more
A love story could be for an evening, a week, a month, it could be forever. There is a big difference between like, love, in love and lust. Hide
[about his proposal to Catherine Oxenberg while recovering from a stroke, which resulted in a 12-day Show more
[about his proposal to Catherine Oxenberg while recovering from a stroke, which resulted in a 12-day marriage] I was very, very seductive but in fact I was crazy. My brain was swollen still. Hide
Robert Evans's FILMOGRAPHY
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