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Top 15 Bob Balaban Quotes (2025 Update)

Bob Balaban Quote: “I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.”

1. “I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.”

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Bob Balaban Quote: “If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.”

2. “If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.”

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Bob Balaban Quote: “I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.”

3. “I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.”

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Bob Balaban Quote: “I’m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.”

4. “I’m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.”

5. “Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.”

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Bob Balaban Quote: “I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.”

6. “I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “I’m from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also – I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.”

7. “I’m from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also – I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.”

8. “I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.”

9. “I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.”

10. “I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old – I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.”

11. “Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old – I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “I’ve directed a fair amount of television series – so I’m always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I’m trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.”

12. “I’ve directed a fair amount of television series – so I’m always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I’m trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.”

13. “People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.”

14. “I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.”

— Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban Quote: “God, I’d love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.”

15. “God, I’d love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.”

— Bob Balaban

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