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Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

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

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation’s citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me

I made that up. You know Marcus. He got lost once in his own museum.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?— A very lost Marcus Brody

I always find that if I sit down, a solution presents itself!

People go to the movies instead of moving.

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires - a villain.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

Now is the time to ask yourself, what you believe.

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

If my 'mind' don't mind, I don't mind.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Lesson in life, kids. Life isn't like the movies, but you can sure as hell act like it is

...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...