Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. J. Abrams

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

Jack Nicholson

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Jack Nicholson

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

Jack Nicholson

You can't handle the truth!

Jack Nicholson

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Dennis Quaid

Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.

Movies rated 'R' are supposed to be banned, yet there are hundreds of them on the list.

Movies have always been sold in a subscription environment, starting all the way back with premium television. Music tends to be in the background, where movies are different: You stop and watch them.

Allison Anders

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

Gia Coppola

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

Frank Spotnitz

Movies and television shows are two completely different species,

Dan Jones

Movies and kids, they are just part of your life. I don't even want to say it's hard, because it really isn't.

Leonard Maltin

It is as old as the movies themselves.

Melissa Peterman

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

Colin Trevorrow

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

Bill Sienkiewicz

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

Carrie Underwood

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.

Bette Davis

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

Bette Davis

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

Bette Davis

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Ashley Tisdale

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

Mike Vogel

I was better, so they pushed him somewhere else, to another spare part they had in the movie.

Max Charles

I would like to be in tons of different types of movies and do different things. I like action movies, and with 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman', I got to see a historical movie, too.

Mary Badham

Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.

Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

John Daly

I still say they made that movie after me,

Robert Sean Leonard

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

Jacki Weaver

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

McG

I strive to make movies I would enjoy.

I think I watched a movie about it.

Mickey Rourke

You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

Jasper Fforde

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

Jay Mohr

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.