Movie Quotes - Page 21

• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Ideas, Territory, Problem

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• I don't see all the movies that come out.

  Ray Walston

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

  Christopher Walken

  Character, Successful, My Favorite

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• The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.

  Josephine Herbst

  Men, Media, Hands

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• I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

  Scott Wolf

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

  Robert Wagner

  Sleep, Thinking, Numbers

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

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• It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Juggernaut, Yeah

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• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  Jack Vance

  Checks, Enormous, Havens

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• I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

  Paul Westerberg

  Thinking, Rocks, Hard

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• It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

  Blair Underwood

  Interesting, Superhero, Very Interesting

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• So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

  Stanley Tucci

  People, Bigs

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• I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

  Justin Timberlake

  Simple, Sneak In, Theatre

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• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Kids, New Orleans, Play

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• The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

  Alex Winter

  Giving Up, Order, Balance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

  Gene Tierney

  Failure, Six, Bed

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  Forest Whitaker

  Kids, Car, Way

  Oscar Acceptance Address for Best Actor in a Leading Role, delivered 25 February 2007, Hollywood, CA

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• 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.

  Bill Vaughan

  Stars, Thinking, Actors

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• I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

  Alex Winter

  Dream, Thinking, States

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

  Alex Winter

  Film, Release, Bigger

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Real, Criticism, Cinema

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  Naomi Watts

  Dark, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

  Denzel Washington

  Watches, Film

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• The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

  Alex Winter

  Return, Investment, Expecting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

  Lynda Obst

  New York, Stupid, Crazy

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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

  Elements, Aliens, Horror

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