Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley MacLaine

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

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

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Shahrukh Khan

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

Shahrukh Khan

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

Scott Wolf

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

Rider Strong

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

Michael Douglas

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Serena Williams

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

Sean Connery

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

Sidney Sheldon

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Scott Speedman

I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

Scott Caan

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

Scott Caan

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

Tom Cruise

I feel the need... the need for speed.

Mel Smith

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

Michelle Pfeiffer

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

John Wayne

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

John Steinbeck

(About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it.

John Slattery

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

Margaret Mitchell

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Megan Fox

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

Matthew Vaughn

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

Matthew Vaughn

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

Matthew Vaughn

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Maurice Sendak

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.

Meg Tilly

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Meg Tilly

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

Max von Sydow

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

Paula Fox

And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.

Martin Scorsese

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

LeBron James

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.