Movie Quotes

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I love any comedic zombie movies.

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

The movie business is a big gamble.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.

I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly, it can be very interesting. But, essentially, it's just a tool.

There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!

I wonder if in 2050 there will be a movie called, 'Dude, Where's My Spaceship'

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.