Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristen Stewart

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

Kristen Stewart

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

Kristen Stewart

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

Kristen Stewart

If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

Kristen Stewart

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

Omar Sharif

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

Kathryn Bigelow

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

Kathryn Bigelow

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

Kathryn Bigelow

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.

Leonardo DiCaprio

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

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.

Gloria Swanson

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

J. Lee Thompson

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

Nate Silver

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

Ken Thompson

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Keanu Reeves

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

Cameron Bright

As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.

Michael Douglas

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Serena Williams

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

Sean Connery

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

Sidney Sheldon

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Scott Speedman

I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

Scott Caan

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

Scott Caan

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

Tom Cruise

I feel the need... the need for speed.

Mel Smith

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

Michelle Pfeiffer

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

John Wayne

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

John Steinbeck

(About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Nicolas Roeg

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Nicolas Cage

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.