Movie Star Quotes - Page 9

• I don't know what Bruce Willis has done in real life. We know actors have certainly had tirades - that's for sure. I never had troubles with him, but the big issue is really less about what Bruce is, as opposed to - this behavior has taken place, and sometimes it came out at something that had credibility, as opposed to, "No, I want to be fat and have a beard." Other people say, "I don't give a damn about the credibility. I paid $20 million. I want to see a movie star."

  Barry Levinson

  Real, Taken, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What we found is that Valentino is actually a tremendous star - almost a movie star, really, because he plays himself all the time. The camera loves him.

  Matt Tyrnauer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way from the studio level, and they're financed and they have movie stars attached and all of that. But a lot of times, the storytelling just doesn't speak to me. It feels like it's still oftentimes coming out of a kind of prescribed notion of normalcy, prescribed notion of gender roles. There's not a lot of "new" seeming to be happening.

  Karyn Kusama

  Interesting, Kind, Horror

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found my job as a director is to cast them well and to understand what they need on set to bring the material to life.

  Ira Sachs

  Kids, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

  Judd Apatow

  Passion, People, Trying

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• My role models were the people in my life. My mom, for sure. My dad. The teachers. For me, role-modeling was immediate, it was touchable. It was rare for me to idolize a movie star or a singer...because, truly, children connect with who is in their lives, present and accounted for.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little power in Hollywood. I don't think it's in the nature of the writer's profession to go after that power. Writers spend their time alone, hallucinating, writing, making these things up, while these other people are out schmoozing, making connections, meeting each other. They are trotting the corridors of power and making sure they've put their own imprints in it. And they're promoting themselves and their images, as they should.

  Robert Towne

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Patrick Swayze was risk-taking - because he not only did a transvestite, but in Donnie Darko, he played a pedophile! Talk about a risky thing for a movie star, and he jumped right in. We even shot some of those video sequences of his character out on his ranch. I mean, he opened his heart and his ranch to us. He was just an awesome guy.

  Beth Grant

  Heart, Character, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Boxing is not coming back. There's not going to be a new Ali or a new Tyson. What's happened to movies is happening to boxing-that is, too much availability of alternative, similar entertainment. Movies started to become diluted with the advent of television; that has been mirrored by the dilution of boxing, with kickboxing and absolute, extreme homicidal fighting.

  James Toback

  Fighting, Boxing, Advent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Al Gore movie cashed in on his personality and the question of where he had been in the six years since his failed US presidential bid. The same movie starring any NASA scientist would have lost money.

  Randy Olson

  Personality, Presidential, Scientist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think some of the best movie stars in the world are guys who stay in their lane. You can lose an audience if you start saying, "Now I really want to do something that is just for me, but on a massive scale." That's a dangerous mix.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Guy, World

  Source: www.vice.com

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• Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

  Chazz Palminteri

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• People tend to think that if someone is a movie star, that automatically everything is easier and there is less pressure. But all of them still keep that pressure on, are still inspired and still care about the work.

  Garrett Clayton

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it's my job to be outside of that and it's not like I'm on the outside when they're all watching me. [About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool's]

  Liv Tyler

  Movie, Jobs, Stars

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• Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.

  Jeff Vespa

  Stars, Wish, Lame

  "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.

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• I have an enormous amount of respect for Nicole Kidman. She's just done so many great movies and she's been out there at the forefront of carrying films and being a movie star. On set, it really pays dividends because when you're performing with her, she knows exactly how to play it. You don't have to compensate for her in any way.

  Mark Strong

  Stars, Play, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't need the approval of the press, but I just wish they'd stop the viciousness....I never felt sorry for people like Lindsay Lohan in my life. I thought they were dopey little movie stars. Now I feel sorry for those people.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Stars, Sorry, People

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• Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Series, or Movies Starring John Travolta Before Pulp Fiction - it is almost impossible to choose a single film for worst movie of all time. But strangely, I do have a nomination and I believe it is actually the worst movie ever made. It is Boxing Helena. The director is David Lynch's daughter, and the film comes with the almost insane-making faults that the family connection might imply.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Friday, Daughter, Believe

  "If I'd made that, I'd change my name". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2004.

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• Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!

  Leon Trotsky

  Stars, Believe, Ignorance

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• Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

  Rosie Perez

  Strong, Stars, Integrity

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• A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Age, Looks

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• To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Play, Titles

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

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• The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Dream, Stars

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

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• My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star." Things were different then. I lived just for the moment, and whatever happened, happened.

  Louise Fletcher

  Stars, Thinking, California

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• Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

  Andy Warhol

  Sports, Stars, Figures

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