Movie Quotes - Page 27

• My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

  Henry Louis Gates

  Queens, Character, Neighbors And Friends

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• I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

  Jerry Garcia

  Book, Successful, Thinking

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• Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

  Chris Rock

  Law, Actors, Said

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 16, 2011.

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• When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

  Henry Rollins

  Party, Thinking, Actors

  "EXCLUSIVE: Talking TV, Movies and Punk Rock with Henry Rollins". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 4, 2006.

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• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

  Mike Royko

  Couple, Philosophy, Simple

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

  Marco Rubio

  Doors, People, Actors

  "Republicans Blast Obama After National Debt Surpasses Economic Output". www.foxnews.com. January 9, 2012.

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• But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

  Jerry Garcia

  Cousin, Grateful, Mean

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• Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

  Winona Ryder

  Stars, Children, School

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• I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

  Megan Fox

  Mean, Winning, Acting

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• I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Actors, Film, Transport

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• I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

  Quentin Tarantino

  True Love, Romance, Actors

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• How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

  Adam West

  People, Culture, Actors

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• Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

  Scott Speedman

  People, Different, Duets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

  Nick Stahl

  Independent, Risk, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

  Ani DiFranco

  Stupid, Long, Stories

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• I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

  Alexa Vega

  Thinking, Annoyed, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

  Jon Stewart

  Actors, I Can

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• Self-plagiarism is style.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Inspiring, Self, Style

  Alfred Hitchcock (2014). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

  George Hickenlooper

  Art, Thinking, Actors

  "Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His “Zelig” with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenh". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. March 26, 2004.

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• You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

  Tim Roth

  Dog, Fiction, Actors

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• I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

  Pia Zadora

  Spy, Information, Violence

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• Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

  Sean Connery

  Book, Numbers, Film

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• Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

  Bono

  Stars, Silly, Rap

  "In the Name of Love: On Bush, Blair, Bono, and Daring to Believe You Can Change the World" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2006.

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• I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

  Bono

  Running, Children, Blood

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• Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

  Elayne Boosler

  Home, Writing, Night

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

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