Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Cassel

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Tom Glavine

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

Tom Hanks

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

Tom Hanks

Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get." Number Six in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

Tom Hanks

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

S. E. Hinton

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

Roman Polanski

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Sam Mendes

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Rosalind Russell

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Rosalind Russell

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

Ron Perlman

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

Roland Emmerich

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

Shia LaBeouf

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.

Shia LaBeouf

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

Shia LaBeouf

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

Shia LaBeouf

The best movies are simple.

Natalie Portman

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

Tara Reid

At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?

Tony Kushner

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

Tom Sizemore

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Steven Spielberg

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Steven Spielberg

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

Steven Spielberg

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

Steven Spielberg

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

Steve Martin

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

Steve Martin

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Shirley Temple

In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

Shirley Temple

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

Shirley MacLaine

The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

Shirley MacLaine

I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.

Shirley MacLaine

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Shahrukh Khan

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.