Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ridley Scott

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

Angie Harmon

I had my plan. I had my family. We would travel the world and shoot movies and be fabulous.

Morgan Freeman

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Morgan Freeman

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

Morgan Freeman

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

Morgan Freeman

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

Lana Turner

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Johnny Depp

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

Johnny Depp

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Johnny Depp

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

John Updike

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

Laura Dern

I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

Laura Dern

I just love, I love, I love movies.

Harvey Fierstein

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

Harvey Fierstein

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

Gene Wilder

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

You want to look like a movie star for prom.

Henry Rollins

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

Hedda Hopper

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Hedda Hopper

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

Richard Stanley

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

Casey Wilson

The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.

James Franco

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

Louise Brooks

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Sinbad

I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.

Hannibal Buress

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

Ray Liotta

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Rashida Jones

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

Stephen King

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Stanley Tucci

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

Stanley Tucci

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Sophia Bush

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

Stanley Kubrick

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.