Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Ephron

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

Nora Ephron

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.

Milla Jovovich

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Meg Tilly

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Meg Tilly

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

Max von Sydow

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

Paula Fox

And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.

Martin Scorsese

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

LeBron James

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

Peter Bart

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Martin Scorsese

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Martin Scorsese

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Martin Scorsese

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Marlene Dietrich

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Marlon Brando

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Megan Fox

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

Matthew Vaughn

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

Matthew Vaughn

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Matthew Vaughn

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Maurice Sendak

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

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.

Margaret Mitchell

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started.