Movie Star Quotes - Page 19

• I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

  Louis Armstrong

  Stars, Real, Night

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• I was named Margaret Yvonne - Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

  Yvonne De Carlo

  Mother, Baby, Stars

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

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• I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

  Joan Bennett

  Stars, Thinking, Film

  "Joan Bennett, Whose Roles Ripened From Sweet to Siren, Dies at 80" by Peter B. Flint, www.nytimes.com. December 9, 1990.

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• There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all Im after is happiness.

  Teri Polo

  Stars, Ideas, People

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• I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Stars, Party, Hollywood

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• The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

  Mason Cooley

  Movie, Stars, Sorrow

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• I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Stars, Roles, Classic Films

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

  Calvin Trillin

  Baseball, Stars, Ambition

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• TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Stars, Acting, Actors

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

  Interview with Rajeev Masand, October 22, 2007.

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• I turned to my mom and said, Im going to be a martial arts movie star. She didnt believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying.

  Scott Adkins

  Mom, Art, Stars

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• I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Want

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• Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

  Anjelica Huston

  Stars, Father, People

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• The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

  Marlon Brando

  Stars, Rights, People

  "Songs My Mother Taught Me". Autobiography by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey, 1994.

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• I am very direct and I tend to treat everyone exactly the same, which sometimes gets me in trouble because some movie stars feel like they should be treated differently. But, when you're dealing with good actors, they really appreciate it.

  John Landis

  Stars, Appreciate, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Want, Can Do

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Cancer, Smoking

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Smoking, Sometimes

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.

  Rex Smith

  Stars, Years, Careers

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Stars, Mean, Angel

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• Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

  Dave Bautista

  Stars, Acting, Subtle

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

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• People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Stars, People, Trying

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• When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Stars, Attention, Want

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• Where is the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie? I don't understand it, why is it taking so long for this? This woman clearly shows that people want to go see her in the movies. ‘Lucy,’ didn't it beat ‘Hercules’ by a lot opening weekend, when it was made for a lot less? She shows that she kicks ass, she's a great actress. ‘Under the Skin’ is an incredible film, and why are we still waiting for a go-ahead on a superhero movie starring Scarlett Johansson?
  To me, it's a no-brainer. You want to make money, put Scarlett Johansson in a superhero movie!

  Jessica Chastain

  Weekend, Long, People

  "Jessica Chastain Calls Out Hollywood, Marvel: ‘Where is the Scarlett Johansson Superhero Movie?’" by Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. August 27, 2014.

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