Robert Blake Quotes (41 Quotes)


    I always thought that her life could go differently, as long as you're on the right side of the dirt that it can happen,

    I gave her 125,000 or 135,000 over a short period of time,

    I said undocumented. ... I reject the use of 'illegal' in this country.

    I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

    For the rest of your life you will have to live with that, and for the rest of my life I'll never forget it because that's the truth. I don't miss anything.


    I don't think anyone ever gave her a chance to breathe. To make choices about things.

    Collette Duvall is a woman, a friend of mine, that I met when I was about 50 years old, and for the next 15, 16 years we were on-and-off lovers and always friends,

    I'm going to go out and do a little cowboyin'. You know what that is Cowboying is getting in a motor home or a van or something like that and you just let the air blow in your hair and you wind up in some little bar in Arizona someplace. You shoot one-handed nine-ball with some 90-year-old Portuguese woman who beats the hell out of you, and the next day you wind up in a park someplace playing chess with somebody, and you go see a high school play where they're doing 'West Side Story.'

    What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

    That was all a lie -- and not a little lie. That's a big lie. That's the kind of lie that God looks down and says, 'Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute.' That's a big, awful, mean, vicious lie. They don't get any worse than that. They don't get any worse than that.

    Didn't I already answer this ... That would not make sense. Nobody was breaking any laws. They weren't going to 'stake out' my property. All that would do is alert the police that there was a problem.

    He was a member of robbery homicide for 19 years and he mysteriously retired one year before his pension and nobody has ever found out why, ... I have only one or two facts that make me believe he may be in the cops' pockets.

    We got married to get to know each other and see if we could make it together,

    For the year before I was arrested, I was told to shut up, and I did. I don't know any more about criminal law than I do about brain surgery, so I did what I was told for a year -- while everybody said whatever they wanted to say about me, in the press, the media, on the streets, anywhere,

    I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.

    I figured if I was going to jail, I didn't want to spend more than six months there... I got so brainwashed over five years of being America's Saddam Hussein that I figured if enough people want you dead, why not croak and get it over with and go see the boss.

    The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

    I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, 'I love my husband, I love my wife,' but I believe they really mean they're in love with their husband or wife, which is quite different from loving your dog. I loved her, I thought she was charming. I respected her intellect She could get a rock to follow her down the road. She was captivating. But there was a terrifying side to her that you would never want to rouse. Hopefully, it could be dampened and eased as she had a better life for the first time in her life.

    could charm the eyes off a rattlesnake. She was smart and cunning.

    I'm not talking about the case, ... I'm talking about my marriage to Sondra, long before the case.

    During an interview on ABC's 2020 ... Of course, I'm innocent. Of course, I'm innocent.


    I had the intention of giving her all the money she needed, so she wouldn't have to be in her business anymore,

    I don't know, I suppose everybody does it differently. I looked up and saw there were porch lights and I went to the closest place where I thought there were people.

    Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.

    You know I want to stay married to you, ... I don't want to do a custody, sue for tons of money and nobody winds up with anything but a lot of heartache and misery. It's the rest of my life. It's the rest of your life.

    Duffy said if he was going to do the job intimidate whoever it was hanging out in front of my house Duffy didn't want any connection with me in case there was any trouble with the police, ... He said, 'Nothing can revert back to you if I have to get a little tense with somebody.'

    I've had problems all my life, big problems. God's been on my shoulder all of my life and I have no real conviction for why some people have trouble on one shoulder and God on the other and why some people don't, but I'm just one of those people, ... The boss has always been there and if I keep rowing, I come out on the other end.

    I've had spectacular highs in my life ... And I've had terrible lows, but the boss has always been there, and if I keep rowing, I come out the other end.

    I have every confidence that when the politicians look at the information they will lift the ban,

    I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

    It would mean a lot to me if you would sign it and get my lawyers off my back, ... All it says is you're not going to open any illegal bank accounts.

    I wanted to convince him (the security) problem was real. And these were the probable reasons.

    I'm not speaking about the case, ... I hear you, and I think I hear where you're going and what you're gonna say. I just want you to think clearly before you say it. I know what you're gonna say to me now. I'm getting the picture.

    The other day, I went to the farmers market, and everybody was hugging me and stuff, but there were people on the outside saying, 'murderer.'

    Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'

    There was a clear understanding that Rosie belonged to me and Bonny.

    I understand, and there's also an 'or else' in it. But I don't want to get to that just yet, ... I just want you to know where I'm coming from. I got the picture of where you're coming from.

    I'd like to give my best performance. I'd like to leave a legacy for Rosie about who I am. I'm not ready for a dog and fishing pole yet. I'd like to go to bed each night desperate to wake up each morning and create some magic.

    I expect some discussion. There are legitimate arguments on both sides, but personally I think larger boards are cumbersome.

    The U.S. economy is probably growing at a pace that cannot be sustained over the long run. In our opinion, that means the Federal Reserve is going to need to act to restrain growth more dramatically than the market expects.


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