Movie Quotes

You have to have the passion. I could not live if I wasn't an actor. If you're just in it for beautiful dresses and movie stars, then I think you should not be an actor.

(Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.

You have to throw yourself into a situation of trust with these things, especially that first day when you don't know someone and you're on a massive Disney Hollywood movie set.

Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along.

I'm, like, y'know, I didn't have a problem doing one scene in Dude, Where's My Car? I'm certainly not going to have a problem doing one scene in a [Martin] Scorsese movie!

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

The film makers are the true movie stars.

Rent Control is not a terrible movie, certainly not for the budget they had. And, again, it's such an '80s kind of thing.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

Friday means popcorn and multiplexes, speaking of movies, and it is the multi that is the problem. So many movie screens. The struggle of what to put on them.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.