Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Royko

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

Kirk Douglas

Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Kim Cattrall

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

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.

Ivan Reitman

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Ivan Reitman

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Guillermo del Toro

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Greg Kinnear

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Grace Jones

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

Jennifer Aniston

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Jennifer Aniston

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

Jennifer Aniston

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

Jeanine Basinger

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Sean Penn

I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.

Joel Edgerton

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

Rob Schneider

I don't make movies for critics, but he irks me.

Kate Winslet

I don't own copies of my own movies.

Jodie Foster

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

Ice T

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Ice Cube

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Hugh Jackman

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

Bai Ling

If I don't make movies, I'm okay too. I'll write books. I'll just sit here and watch the world go by. I'll feel comfortable.

Antoine Fuqua

If ICM can't get that movie made, then you have to go somewhere else where you can,

Eminem

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Eminem

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Jason Statham

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

Jason Statham

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

Jason Statham

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.