Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Favreau

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

Greta Garbo

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

Greta Garbo

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.

Jessica Lange

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

Jessica Lange

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

Jerry Garcia

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

Jerry Garcia

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

Fisher Stevens

The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

Fiona Shaw

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

Henry Louis Gates

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan'.

Henry Louis Gates

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

Gore Vidal

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

Harvey Weinstein

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

Harvey Weinstein

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

Jackie Chan

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Jackie Chan

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

Jackie Chan

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

Jackie Chan

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Jackie Chan

The movie business is a big gamble.

Jackie Chan

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

Jackie Chan

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Elton John

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Jerry Orbach

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

Jeff Bridges

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

Jeff Bridges

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Jeff Bridges

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Jeff Bridges

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

Jeff Bridges

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

Jeff Bridges

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

Jeff Bridges

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

Jeff Bridges

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Jeff Bridges

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

Jeff Bridges

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.