Motion Pictures Quotes - Page 3

• I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

  Conrad Veidt

  Business, Stupid, Hate

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• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Art, Kindness, Humble

  Hattie McDaniel's Academy Awards acceptance speech for "Actress in a Supporting Role" Award for the film "Gone with the Wind", aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 29, 1940.

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• I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

  Kurt Russell

  Careers, Looks, Want

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• I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Hero, Villain, Unbelievable

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• [T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Israel, Machines, Television

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• The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, Lying, Government

  Speech in Des Moines, Iowa, September 11, 1941.

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• I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

  George Lucas

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Book, Views, Exhibitions

  Theodore Dreiser (1920). “Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life”

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• Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

  Gene Kelly

  Two, Dancing, Three

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• A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Animal, Perspective

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• I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

  Ginger Rogers

  Would Be, Lasts, Actresses

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• I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark.

  Dorothy Lamour

  Six, Kind, Trademarks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

  Dalton Trumbo

  Brother, Kings, Years

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• Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.

  William O. Douglas

  Expression, Ideas, Different

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• I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion pictures, recordings, international competitions, and interesting public forums, a larger group of people will learn to love classical music and attend live concert performances.

  Jose Iturbi

  Live Concerts, People, Interesting

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• A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

  Samuel Fuller

  Scripts, Cigar

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• For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

  Michael Medved

  Winning, Election, Vote

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• The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our Government. I am saying that the LEADERS of the Jewish race wish to involve us in the war for reasons that are NOT AMERICAN.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, War, Lying

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• I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

  Potter Stewart

  Succeed, Kind, Obscenity

  Jacobellis v. Ohio (concurring opinion) (1964)

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• I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

  David O. Russell

  Blessed, Privilege, Feels

  "Writer-director David O. Russell". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 8, 2013.

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• I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Educational, Believe, Years

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• Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

  Bette Davis

  Mother, Years, Experience

  1962 Advertisement placed in the Hollywood trade papers.

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• A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

  Uwe Boll

  Dark, House, Typical

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• Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, War, Lying

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• I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

  Norm MacDonald

  Interest, Sitcom

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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