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
. . . 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
[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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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'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.
[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
