Movie Quotes

When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon. You roll in, you do your thing, and then you're gone.

Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie

I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it’s like, “Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let’s sit in the hair chair together!” We’re lonely, women.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

My agent called me at 5:30am, and I thought the set of my movie had burned down, or Josh [Hutcherson] had died, or something…I didn’t realize! I was so tired!

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.

Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

I feel like I haven't started yet. I'm looking forward to the ninth album, the thirtieth movie.

I would definitely say that I am a very big movie musical fan in general and I try to see every one that I possibly can - and 'Glee' every week.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie youre never really afraid for her because you know shes not going to die.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

We always try to make the very best movie when we're working on and we can only think one at a time. We want to make this a perfect jewel, and then we'll see what happens after that.

I want to make every kind of movie that I can make. I don't really care if they're big or small.

There's a part of me that would love to be in an action movie where I get to run around and punch people in the face and, whatever, be a murderer, I don't care!

Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

We knew that, in doing something that's based around the world of the movie and how popular that is, we really wanted to do the biggest show that we've ever done, in terms of the look of the show.

It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career.

I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye type of thing. There's that kind of irreverence to it the humor and in the reality of what's really going on that plays into this movie.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

I can't go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job.

No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

If you're going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.

I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.