Movie Quotes

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.

Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.

The thing about chemistry, it's sort of you get along with a person and then sort of if the movie does well, then you have great chemistry.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

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!"

I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.

Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.