Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ang Lee

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

Ang Lee

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Amanda Seyfried

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Christopher Nolan

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

Christopher Walken

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

Christopher Walken

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

Christopher Walken

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

Annie Proulx

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Claudia Schiffer

I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

Annette Bening

I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.

Ashley Tisdale

I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.

Pierce Brosnan

There's always been product placement in Bond movies.

Rutina Wesley

I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.

Michael Lehmann

People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.'

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Leonard Maltin

It is as old as the movies themselves.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

I think it was important for us to show that you can make movies in north Louisiana,

Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

John Daly

I still say they made that movie after me,

Robert Sean Leonard

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

Melissa Peterman

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

Randeep Hooda

For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

Bill Watterson

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.

Bill Vaughan

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

Bette Midler

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

Bette Midler

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

Jack Valenti

to tell us what kind of movies to make.

Beth Grant

I can remember before 'Rain Man,' I just couldn't get in on anything, any features. After that and it winning the Oscar - the next year, I co-starred in six movies.

Bruce Feirstein

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.