Movie Quotes

You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.

I'm always looking for that movie that feels like it's hitting me where I need it.

I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.

It's nice when the movie is not on your shoulders, too. It's fun to do a smaller part sometimes.

I've learned to do a movie and then not be in that place for a long time.

I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else.

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.

People are always going to find the ones with the weird like buzz-worthy thing about a movie and like run with it.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.

I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the Joan Jett out of me.

I can watch endless humans get killed, but if I see a movie and they kill a dog, I practically want to walk out.

Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

We've [with Jack Black] probably never been in an interview where someone hasn't asked how we got together, so we thought if we put it in the movie, it'll answer the question altogether.

I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.

I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

We're all part of movie and we're all incredibly and equally important but it is your actor's job to perform and to deliver.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

Wraith rubbed his hands together in cheesy horror-movie glee. “Join us or die.” He grinned. “I’ve always wanted to say that.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

I've done radio interviews about this movie [42]. I feel I'm a part of this movie, since I knew Jackie Robinson. I was at his first game.

There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to.

Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.

I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker.

I saw Food, Inc. last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

I think it's good to tell the fans "this movie's going to lead to that, and that will lead to..."

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

I like it when a movie scares the s - t out of me. That, for me, is just the best.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.