Film Quotes - Page 37

• My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.

  Paula Yates

  Mother, Running, Purple

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• I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

  Glenn Ford

  White, Feet, People

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• I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.

  Christopher Parker

  Watches, Tvs, Cameron

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• In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Funny, Drama, Action

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• I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.

  Helena Christensen

  Beautiful, Reality, Pieces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

  Minnie Driver

  Cute, Girl, Responsibility

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• There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

  Ben Kingsley

  Light, Profound, Film Set

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• I've done quite a few big American films.

  John Malkovich

  Done, Bigs, American Film

  "John Malkovich Discusses Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

  John Malkovich

  Matter, Ifs

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• Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Sports, Sex

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• Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Insecure, Reality, People

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• I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

  Marisa Tomei

  Night, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.

  Marisa Tomei

  Jobs, Stars, Powerful

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

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• I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

  Barbara Hershey

  Thinking, Hands, Australia

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• To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

  Dennis Hopper

  Documentaries, Features, One Thing

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

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• But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

  Ellen Barkin

  Issues, Intimacy, Stage

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

  Ellen Barkin

  Mother, Character, Thinking

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• Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

  Calista Flockhart

  Years, Soul, Hollywood

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• A dolly move is a moral commitment.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Moving, Commitment, Moral

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• I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

  Rutger Hauer

  Moving, Thinking, Careers

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• If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

  Sean William Scott

  Guy, Actors, Clown

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• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Sex, Years

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• It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.

  Kevin Kline

  Kids, People, Sometimes

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• I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

  Miranda Richardson

  Acting, Roles, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the money's right, I'll do a film.

  Oliver Reed

  Ifs

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