Box Office Quotes

• I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

  Bill Forsyth

  Thinking, Comfort And Joy, Office

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• Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Eye, Office

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.161, Penguin

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• What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

  Diane Kruger

  Jobs, Thinking, Long

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• Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

  Jessica Lange

  Office, Mind, Kind

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

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• The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

  Ang Lee

  Writing, Men, Views

  Interview with Karan Johar, www.hindustantimes.com. November 4, 2012.

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• If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

  George Lucas

  Girl, Sunset, Boys

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• Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

  Marlee Matlin

  Office, Hollywood, Different

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• Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Stars, Real, Men

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• Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

  Tyler Perry

  Believe, Hype, Numbers

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• The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

  Harold Prince

  Successful, Ideas, Office

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 24, 2010.

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• I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

  John C. Reilly

  Here I Am, Office, People

  "Conquer Your Shortcomings". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Office, Boxes

  "Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges Talk R.I.P.D., Childhood Memories, On-Set Injuries, Creating Roy the Cowboy, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

  Tim Robbins

  Fun, Office, Acting

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• Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Dog, Fashion, Hate

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.119, David C Cook

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• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  Mae West

  Office, Rewards, Virtue

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  Jackie Chan

  Office, Care, Boxes

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• Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

  Jackie Chan

  Movie, Office, Actors

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• When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Office, Fake, Promotion

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• The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

  John Cusack

  Office, Dollars, Figure Skating

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• I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Character, Worry, Office

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• People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

  Johnny Depp

  Movie, People, Office

  "'I don't want my kids to Google me and read lies and rumours': Johnny Depp frets over the internet and the price of fame" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. May 9, 2012.

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• So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Girl, Twilight, Home

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Rosenberg, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, Office, People

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• So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

  Charlize Theron

  Winning, Awards, Office

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 29, 2014

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• When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.

  Denzel Washington

  Passion, People, Office

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