Movie Quotes - Page 16

• You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

  Robert Duvall

  Dancer, Actors, Crash

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• Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

  Robert Duvall

  Hollywood, Actors, Mecca

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• I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

  Ben Hecht

  Men, Directors, Actors

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• It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Real, Character, Fighting

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• When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Boys, Actors, Wanted

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• I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

  Laura Dern

  Home, My Boyfriend, Actors

  "Fifteen ways to leave your lover" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2003.

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• The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.

  Jon Stewart

  Dubai, Religion Of Islam, Plot

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• The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

  Johnny Depp

  Challenges, Actors, Consciousness

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• President Bush said this Iraq situation looks like 'the rerun of a bad movie.' Well sure, there's a Bush in the White House, the economy's going to hell, we're going to war over oil. I've seen this movie, haven't I?

  Jay Leno

  War, Oil, Iraq

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• I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

  Jack Valenti

  Father, Adults, Actors

  The New York Times, March 5, 1987.

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• In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Crazy, Taken, Views

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• Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.

  Halle Berry

  Actors, Answers, Freak

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• Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

  Gene Wilder

  Cities, Safety, Political

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• If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Real, Winning, Thinking

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• 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 Watterson

  Character, Rights, Giving

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• I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Jesus, Actors

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

  David Zucker

  Brother, Zero, Thinking

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

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• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Two, Actors

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• If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

  Nikki Reed

  Moving, Opportunity, Editing

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• When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

  Pauline Kael

  Baby, Couple, Fall

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• Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Long, Different

  Pauline Kael (1970). “Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969”, Marion Boyars

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• Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Expression, Sullen

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

  John Slattery

  Growing Up, Emotion, Complexes

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

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• You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Problem, Enough

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• 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

  Stars, Actors, Skinny

  "The 75th Annual Academy Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. March 23, 2003.

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