Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo DiCaprio

It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to continue to do that kind of movie.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

Mae West

Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

Liv Tyler

It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it's my job to be outside of that and it's not like I'm on the outside when they're all watching me. [About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool's]

Liv Tyler

I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don't think that's what it's about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream ? Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don't understand how a performance like that can't win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body.

Michael Jackson

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Michael Cunningham

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

Michael Crichton

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Marilyn Manson

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

Michael Caine

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

Michael Caine

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

Michael Caine

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

Melanie Griffith

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

Mason Cooley

The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

Mary Astor

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

Michael Connelly

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

Michael Apted

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Michel Hazanavicius

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

Paul Newman

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

Matthew Fox

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Paul Goodman

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

Julia Roberts

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

Julia Roberts

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

Julia Roberts

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

Kevin Costner

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

Kathleen Turner

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

Kristin Scott Thomas

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Mike Nichols

It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.

Clive Owen

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

Doug Larson

It took only 50 years for movies to go from silent to unspeakable.