Movie Quotes - Page 12

• I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Actors, Movie Star

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• It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

  Jason Statham

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• I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

  Clint Eastwood

  Role Models, Roles, Actors

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• Cinema is like dream.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Dream, Cinema

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• If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Friends, Past, Reality

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• It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Years, Lasts, Made

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• The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

  Mason Cooley

  Stars, Sorrow, Millions

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• ... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

  Jeanine Basinger

  Fashion, Paris, Three

  Jeanine Basinger (2013). “A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960”, Knopf

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• oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
  so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
  they won't know the difference
  and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

  Frank O'Hara

  Mother, Differences, Doe

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Mistake, Should Have

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• ...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

  Anita Loos

  Past, Once Upon A Time, Hollywood

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• 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

  Brother, Play, Acting

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• We are the movies and the movies are us.

  David Ansen

  Gambling, Actors

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• 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

  Mirrors, Acting, Experts

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• Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

  Mae West

  Dream, California, Feelings

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

  Shirley Temple

  Hollywood, Delay, Weapons

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• So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind.
  
  Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios.
  Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense.
  
  Is like to go to the movies for free, every day.
  
  The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for:
  Sit down, Shut up and Meditate
  (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)

  Marcelo Goianira

  Drama, Technology, Confusion

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• I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

  Clint Eastwood

  Average, Guy, Feelings

  "Clint Eastwood defends his empty-chair RNC speech", www.today.com. November 2, 2015.

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• You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Special, Stories

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• I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

  Sting

  Two, Police, Records

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• The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

  Hugh Grant

  Weather, Actors, Moral

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• Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

  James Stewart

  Thinking, Trying, Acting

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• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

  David Zucker

  Thinking, Big Fish, Serious

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

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• As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

  William Goldman

  Stars, Actors, Essentials

  William Goldman (2012). “Adventures in the Screen Trade”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.

  John Hughes

  Inspiring, Sex, Character

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