Movie Quotes - Page 17

• I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

  Ben Stiller

  Careers, Way, Comedy

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• I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Nice, Thinking, Acting

  "Sigourney Weaver for “Tadpole”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  Cameron Diaz

  Actors, Sake, Next

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• I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

  Michael Vartan

  Lazy, Hours, Easier

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

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• I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

  Ben Affleck

  Years, Great Year, Actors

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• Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

  Daryl Hannah

  Actors, Filmmaking, Mediums

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.

  Christian Slater

  Character, Play, Mind

  "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.

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• Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

  Robin Tunney

  People, Needs, Theater

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• After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

  Robin Tunney

  Bigs, Big Movie

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. May 29, 2003.

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• I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

  Meg Tilly

  Children, Successful, Order

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• Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

  Meg Tilly

  Interesting, Emotion, Horror

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• Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

  Melanie Griffith

  Eight, Everyday, Bed

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• The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  Real, People, Magic

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• All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

  Morgan Freeman

  Years, Six Year Olds, Actors

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• I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

  James Spader

  Fun, Reality, Thinking

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• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too

  Max von Sydow

  Country, Opportunity, Men

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• In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

  Max von Sydow

  Fighting, Want, Theater

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• And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

  Jason Statham

  People, Compliment, Come Up

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Edward Zwick

  Inspiring, People, Challenges

  "Blood Diamond: Interview with Director Ed Zwick". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. November 14, 2006.

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• I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Believe, Actors, Impossible

  "I have done nothing" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.

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• My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

  Eli Wallach

  Wife, Acting, Stage

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

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• It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

  Alan Rudolph

  Inspiring, Lasts, Next

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

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• The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

  Elvis Presley

  Tea, Honest, Honest Tea

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• No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

  Jean-Louis Trintignant

  Cinema, Want, Today

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• I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

  Robert Wagner

  Cameras, Company, Fronts

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