Emilio Estevez Quotes

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  “We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us-that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect”.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Beauty, Life, Truth

  Tags in Wonderful, Broken, Beautiful

• Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, Faith

• You know, we’re a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I’m a momma’s boy. We all are. So there’s no exclusion in this family. You’re part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Exclusion

• 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.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficulties, Member

• We’re a very close family and we’re a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Problems

• 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.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Meditation, American

• The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Fantasy

• There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television, Directing, Skills

• 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.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Father, Mother

• The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is anextraordinary gift.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bottle, Wine

• 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.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Extent, Celebrity, Status

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

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Twitter, Follower

• I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in America, Death

  Tags in Decency

• What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It’s biblical, it’s huge. It’s so personal.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Biblical, Personal

• We’ve lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let’s not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Computer, Nature, Technology

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

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Moderate, Conservative

• We’re all imperfect. And wouldn’t it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we’re fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn’t that be great for everyone?

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everyone, Imperfect

• I saw a headshot with the name ‘Emilio Sheen’ printed under it and it looked terrible.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrible

• I’m a wonderful disaster. So are you. We’re all a mess. We’re in this culture that says take this pill and you’ll be happy, go on this diet and you’ll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Self, Disaster, Culture

• I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Projects, Kids

Emilio Estevez (42)

Birth:	12th May, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Emilio Estevez was born in Staten Island, New York, USA. He is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is well known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, and also acting in the 1983 hit movie The Outsiders. He is also known for Repo Man, The Mighty Ducks and its sequels, Stakeout, Maximum Overdrive, Bobby, and his performances in Western films such as Young Guns and its sequel. Most recently, he has directed episodes of the television series Cold Case, Close to Home, The Guardian, CSI: NY and Numb3rs. The films he has directed include Men at Work and The War at Home. He directed the 2006 film Bobby, which took over six years to write.

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