Robot Quotes

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn`t acting. It`s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director`s task is just that to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

(On her reaction to hearing about RoboCop 2 (1990)): "I suppose this was the first thing that made me think about making a sequel, because they used to say "well, she is going to return as a robot..." I never thought that as a real possibility, because everybody expected it, if you`re going to make a sequel, you cannot stay with the predictable. I think I wouldn`t like to play a robot, I don`t know how Peter manages it, I suffer from claustrophobia! If I have to tell the truth I never thought to make a sequel, when people used to talk about it I thought that was ridiculous. The first time that I seriously thought about it was when Jon Davidson (the producer) called. "You know it, right? RoboCop2?" then I thought: "oh, that`s interesting"

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

When I started in movies, I said, `I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.` The biggest movie stars make the biggest movies, so (my producing partner James Lassiter and I) looked at the top 10 movies of all time. At that point, they were all special-effects movies. So Independence Day, no-brainer. Men in Black, no-brainer. I, Robot, no-brainer.

(on the performances in Star Wars (1977)): The only really disappointing performance was Anthony Daniels as the robot - fidgety and over-elaborately spoken. Not that any of the cast can stand up to the mechanical things around them.

(His diary entry after viewing Star Wars (1977) for the first time): It`s a pretty staggering film as spectacle and technically brilliant. Exciting, very noisy and warm-hearted. The battle scenes at the end go on for five minutes too long, I feel, and some of the dialogue is excruciating and much of it is lost in noise, but it remains a vivid experience. The only really disappointing performance was Anthony Daniels as the robot, fidgety and over-elaborately spoken. Not that any of the cast can stand up to the mechanical things around them.

One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White`s beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.

I`m a dog person, I`ve had dogs all my life. But you see, it`s not really a dog. It`s more like a little robot. It`s an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn`t know any of us even though we`ve done five seasons of Frasier.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

So if you`re a robot and you`re living on this planet, you can do things that you can`t do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.

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The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

pick up (your weapons), throw them on the robot and jump into battle.

It`s like I, Robot , when Will Smith had that iron on one side of his body. I know I`m protected, ... I`m not going out there timid. God forbid it to happen again, but if it does it`ll be when I`m running 110 miles an hour.