Movie Quotes - Page 25

• By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

  Roger Ebert

  Moving, College, Heritage

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

  Tracey Ullman

  Water, Stuff, Taste

  "Q&A: Tracey Ullman" by Devin Gordon, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

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• I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Drama, Three

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• You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Pleasing Everyone, Actors, Matter

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• I'm a fan of good horror movies.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Fans, Horror

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• I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

  Louis C. K.

  Crazy, Actors, Littles

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• I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

  Damian Lewis

  Thinking, People, Suspense

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• Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Actors, Making Money

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

  Tom Hanks

  Numbers, Office, Connections

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2001.

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• Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Long Ago, Scripts

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• At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

  Tom Hanks

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "The Cast Of ‘Larry Crowne’ Weighs In On Tom Hanks & This Summer’s Anti-Tentpole" by Leah Zak, www.indiewire.com. June 28, 2011.

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• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

  Elvis Presley

  Dream, Believe, Book

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• I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

  Richard Pryor

  Missing, Being Thankful, Thankfulness

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• I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, Stars, Men

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• All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

  Manuel Puig

  Needs, Stories, Actors

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• I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Dollars, Actors, Bragging

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• I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, Actors, Rooms

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• I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

  Ryan Gosling

  Character, Thinking, Order

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• I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Actors

  "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Stars, Self, Ego

  "Shah Rukh Khan: 'My job is to make people smile'" by Grace Wong, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2010.

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• How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  People, Directors, Details

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• We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Two, Groups, Actors

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• And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Believe, Golf, Swings

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Ambition, Actors, I've Learned

  "A rough-edged action hero". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, articles.latimes.com. June 26, 2011.

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• The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

  George Lucas

  Sound And Music, Actors, Entertainment

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