Big Movie Quotes

• With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?

  Brooklyn Decker

  Jamaica, Parent, Pay

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• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.

  Candace Cameron

  Mom, Dad, Next

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

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• Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

  Sam Mendes

  Fun, Thumbs Up, Games

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

  Willie Aames

  Stars, People, Looks

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• I have kept working, even if Ive thrown off the big movies I used to do. I still have three or four wonderful little movies coming out.

  Karen Black

  Three, Four, Littles

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• I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Agents, Goes On, Auditions

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• I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

  Robert Pattinson

  Three, Half, Months

  "Exclusive Twilight Interview: Rob, Kellan, and Jackson". www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2009.

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• I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

  Andrew Stanton

  Independent, Want, Able

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• If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.

  Alfred Molina

  Hands, Creative, Roles

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• I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

  Tracy Morgan

  Night, Fans, Watches

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• After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

  Robin Tunney

  Movie, Bigs

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. May 29, 2003.

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• Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Crazy, Believe, Care

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

  Donnie Yen

  Lucky, Hollywood, Bigs

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• Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

  Steve Sabol

  Movie, Football, Games

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

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• Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

  Eli Roth

  Stars, Needs, Bigs

  Interview with Rhonda Richford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.

  Michel Gondry

  Independent, Ideas, People

  "‘Green Hornet’ Director Michel Gondry Talks Hardships In Hollywood". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow.

  Todd Strauss-Schulson

  Children, Play, Snow

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  People, Would Be, Miserable

  "Maggie Gyllenhaal for 'Criminal'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 9, 2004.

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• You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

  Tony Gilroy

  Trying, Way, Bigs

  "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.

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• Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

  Ayelet Zurer

  Actors, Scene, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

  Emily Blunt

  Should, Bigs

  "Emily Blunt: 'Everyone wants the first bite'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2010.

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• Digital also had this evolution that came out of post-production. And George Lucas did it because he wanted to make a big movie with special effects. Sort of the opposite of what you'd think is an indie film. So it's coming from both these angles.

  Christopher Kenneally

  Thinking, Opposites, Special

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.

  Brett Ratner

  Nice, Winning, Awards

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