Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Levy

I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'

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

Allison Anders

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

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.

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.

Sean Penn

I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.

Joel Edgerton

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

Michael Lehmann

People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.'

David Chase

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

Viggo Mortensen

In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

Robbie Coltrane

I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.

Avan Jogia

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

Gad Elmaleh

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

Oscar Isaac

People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.

Halston Sage

'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.

Eli Roth

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

Rob Reiner

I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'

Beth Grant

I can remember before 'Rain Man,' I just couldn't get in on anything, any features. After that and it winning the Oscar - the next year, I co-starred in six movies.

Bindi Irwin

If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

Gena Rowlands

I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

Chris Pine

Look at the movies of the sixties and seventies. They were making a different kind of movie then. Would 'Network' ever be made now? No. Would 'Kramer vs. Kramer' ever be made now? No. Would 'Tootsie' ever be made now? Probably not. Robert Altman films? Never.

Faye Dunaway

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

Fede Alvarez

'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.

Gurinder Chadha

Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.

A. J. Cook

I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

Ansel Elgort

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

Ansel Elgort

So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together.

Adrian Grenier

Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.

Campbell Scott

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.