Famous Movie Quotations

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"Hollywood called me, asking me, 'How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?' '$50,000' They called back, 'How about $20,000?' I said, 'I'll pay it!'"
by Henny Youngman
"The extreme always seems to make an impression."
by Heathers
"The success of the first two releases confirms that SAW is a franchise that will continue to have legs for a very long time. The movies combine action, suspense and gore while taking us into the mind of one of the most memorable madmen in horror movie history. While the success at the box office gave SAW II momentum for its home video release, we also ensured that it stood out at retail with unique packaging and an extensive marketing and promotional campaign. With the Valentine's Day opening, we were able to pull out all the stops on a unique overall marketing program that gave the release great visibility leading up to street date."
by Steve Beeks
"We're both on the rebound, or whatever that terminology is when you're in recovery from a divorce. We have that in common, both scratching our heads fighting being cynical. And it's hard. You need a lot of humor to fight cynicism, and this movie has it - both, actually. So it's great."
by Diane Lane
"What I am doing is more important than a movie or audio of me doing it. Technology should never be used for technology's sake, but the application of technology to enhance learning, I am all for."
by Robert Pompi
"You can get patents on games, and what's the end result of a game? ... Laughter, tears, emotions--the same thing as a movie."
by James Hall
"I think it's terrific. A lot of people in my neighborhood have been saying, 'Oh my goodness gracious, we wish we had a movie theater.' They don't want to have to drive up to Sarasota."
by Jim Myers
"Oh, the humor! It's hysterical. And it's smart and goofy at the same time, kind of like a Neil Simon play or a Mel Brooks movie. I read it over and over again, and it changed me in the way of storytelling, seeing things differently."
by Rosie Perez
"Never judge a book by its movie."
by J. W. Eagan
"I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie."
by Penn Jillette
"I want to do is a character-driven porn movie. It's all going to be about characters, and the porn's gonna grow all out of the character's and it's going to serve as character development."
by Matt Damon
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."
by Mulan
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
by Ian Fleming
"Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental."
by Meg Ryan, Sleepless in Seattle
"First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village, but the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living if you don't have a dick?"
by Donnie Darko
"Do or do not, there is no try."
by Yoda
"Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate."
by Johnny Depp
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
by J. K. Rowling
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
by Roald Dahl
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by Rick Moranis
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
by William Wallace
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
by Roald Dahl
"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human."
by Andy and Larry Wachowski
"[Knowles says,] A lot of people would bring up that, you know, (saying) 'You broke ... ' No, I did not break 'Batman and Robin.' The people who made 'Batman and Robin' broke 'Batman and Robin,' I just told a lot of people that it was a bad movie."
by Robin Williams
"A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should."
by Frank Darabont
"A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads."
by Alan Parker
"A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?"
by Christian Bale
"A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie."
by Maurice Jarre
"A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear"
by Jack Nicholson
"A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being."
by Dwight Yoakam
"Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur."
by Deane Jordan
"And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous."
by Brian De Palma
"Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults."
by John Lasseter
"And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor."
by John Mahoney
"Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from."
by Teri Garr
"Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?"
by Victoria Jackson
"Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders."
by Friederich Nietzsche
"Don't judge a book by its movie."
by Anonymous
"Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that."
by Famke Janssen
"Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink."
by Jason Patric
"Guess again."
by The Running Man
"HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood."
by Mathieu Kassovitz
"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars."
by Fred Allen
"I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot's arms would move in sync with yours."
by John Badham
"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
by Ralph Ellison
"I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie."
by Louis Malle
"I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature."
by Victor Salva
"I keep seeing lousy films and saying to myself, 'I don't know anything about movie making, but I couldn't do any worse than this'."
by Stanley Kubrick
"I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything."
by Will Oldham
"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.' by"
by Homer Simpson
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
by Woody Allen
"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."
by Will Rogers
"I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going."
by Karl Malden
"I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never going to teach first and second grade."
by Mary J. Wilson
"If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies."
by Quentin Tarantino
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank."
by Woody Allen
"If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers."
by Sean Penn
"If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by."
by Japanese Proverb
"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."
by Mae West
"Life is like a movie..How good you do depends on your critics."
by Anonymous
"Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid."
by Jed Seidel
"Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it"
by Quentin Tarantino
"My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked."
by Peter Stack
"No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs."
by Kate Capshaw
"Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him."
by Clint Eastwood
"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."
by Bob Balaban
"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."
by Gary Oldman
"So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could."
by Blair Underwood
"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
by Elizabeth Taylor
"The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone."
by Henry Adams
"The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer."
by From the 1985 movie Bliss
"The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses."
by Richard O'Brien
"The police.....always wanting to play games."
by Maude (Ruth Gordon)
"Trent I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet. You're not sure where he's coming from. Okay You're a bad man. You're a bad man. You're a bad man, bad man."
by Swingers
"Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it."
by Jason Patric
"Watership Down: You've read the book. You've seen the movie. Now eat the stew!"
by Dani Zweig
"We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester."
by Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie
"When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, like that movie Spaceballs. But instead it was dark and disturbing. Like that movie -- Police Academy"
by Homer Simpson
"While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife."
by Baghdad Betty
"Why a duck?"
by Chico Marx
"You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain."
by Jeff Melvoin
"You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold."
by Neve Campbell
"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
by Elton John
"We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest."
by Thomas Merton
"My wife, Kimora, once told me while we were watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that that's a vegetarian movie. The way that woman was screaming, 'Aaaahhh,' and she's running away that's how every animal you eat is running for his life ..."
by Russell Simmons
"This [video footage from the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can’t even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits."
by Morley Safer
"I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me."
by Milla Jovovich
"Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts."
by Denis Waitley
"My biggest fear is that someone will make a TV movie of my life."
by Tera Ellefson
"You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place."
by Anthony Robbins
"Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. Wouldn't you say, she asked, that killings like this are influenced by violent movies? No, I said, I wouldn't say that. But what about 'Basketball Diaries'? She asked. Doesn't that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun? The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office, and it's unlikely the Columbine killers saw it. The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. Events like this, I said, if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; These two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory."
by Roger Ebert
"A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear."
by Jack Nicholson
"When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it."
by Tim Burton
"There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have lost anybody anywhere and don"
by Will Rogers
"All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish."
by Clive James
"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
by Robert Bresson
"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."
by Ben Hecht
"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
by Sam Shepard
"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. Funny"
by Will Rogers
"In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum."
by John Carpenter


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