American Movie Quotes - Page 2

• I didn't want to be on screen not nailing an American accent. It's an insult to an American! There are plenty of great American actors who can already do an American accent, so me, coming in and stealing their roles, the one thing I have to perfect is the accent. So for years I practiced. And we're lucky because the whole world is raised on a library of American movies. I would pretend to be Jim Carrey, and, I say Robin Williams now because he's in my mind, but those actors really inspired us to be crazy and be theatrical.

  Brenton Thwaites

  Crazy, Perfect, Mind

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• I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters were like real people?" And the worst thing is films are constantly advertising themselves, drawing attention to their style of things. But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. But you don't want the audience thinking about the bloody film. You want them to think about what's going on, and believe in it. Be flies on the wall, you know?

  Mike Leigh

  Wall, Real, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Watches, Want, Nazi

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• All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

  Baran Odar

  Kids, My Favorite

  Source: collider.com

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• What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

  Owen Wilson

  Actors, Accents, Australian

  Source: www.mtv.com.au

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• I have a tendency to think that that stereotype of American movies and Hollywood movies doesn't exist. Of course you have the studios that have a very hard policy upon their artists, but then I haven't really been doing any real Hollywood movie yet.

  Vincent Cassel

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• We've grown up with American movies. Not to say that American movies - or movies that have been based in Watts, Compton, or Inglewood - are a 100% true depiction of that world. But also you have inner-city London, and the foundations are pretty much the same. Especially me, growing up in Southeast London, in Peckham.

  John Boyega

  Growing Up, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

  Irwin Winkler

  Government, Groups, Culture

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• It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

  Roland Emmerich

  Hate, Hollywood, Obsession

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• For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

  Jay Baruchel

  Home, Guy, Gone

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• Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, "oh!", and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Heart, Feel Good, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

  Tom Hooper

  Travel, Class, Age

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

  Neil Jordan

  Wells, Knows, Comfortable

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• For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

  Melanie Laurent

  Beautiful, Want, Pressure

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• Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

  Casey Robinson

  Movie, Stars, Moon

  1942 Line delivered by Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager.

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• What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

  Guy Ritchie

  Kids, Thinking, Suffering

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• Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

  Maxwell Caulfield

  Stars, Hero, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Elements, Aliens

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• I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Movie, Great Year, Wind

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

  Alan Rudolph

  Unique, Everyday, Today

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

  George M. Cohan

  Movie, Thank You, Mother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

  Bette Davis

  Movie, Inspiring, Stars

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• I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Movie, Baseball, Men

  Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

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