Box Office Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.

  Bruce Willis

  Successful, Office, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.

  Hugo Weaving

  Judging, Office, Levels

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• It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

  Alan Ladd

  People, Office, Personality

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• Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

  Dirk Benedict

  Office, Doe, Guarantees

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• As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

  Woody Allen

  Jobs, Artist, Sight

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• To the extent that movies get released, they are generally not big box-office generators. Hollywood is clearly focusing on their holiday releases coming up and those will either make or break the year.

  Tom Arnold

  Holiday, Years, Office

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• Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

  Matthew Lillard

  Romantic, America, Office

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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

  Movie, Numbers, Office

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

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• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Horse, Book, Thinking

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• I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

  Diane Kruger

  Thinking, Office, Boxes

  Interview With Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

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• I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Office, Actors, Proud

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• I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

  Michael Fassbender

  Independent, Thinking, Names

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• Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures dealing with the folklore of Negro life, were commercially feasible. This was a sign of growth that had occurred in the United States and throughout the world.

  Harry Belafonte

  Artist, Office, Growth

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• When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.

  Gayle King

  Office, Support, Actors

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• To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.

  Aamir Khan

  Numbers, Office, Honest

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

  Tim Ferriss

  Book, Weekend, Years

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