Popcorn Quotes - Page 5

• I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've go to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

  Mr. T

  Pride, People, Car

  "Mr. T" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2002.

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• Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sarcastic, Men, Idols

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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• I'm starved." -Juli "How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth "Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki

  Lynsay Sands

  Bowls, Huge

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• The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren’t so germ-phobic with each other that we won’t share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.

  Rachel Cohn

  Army, Laughing, Zombie

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.41, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and popcorn, it's understandable that people are opting to buy a movie on DVD for fifteen dollars, even if it's no-frills.

  Tim Lucas

  Dvds, People, Choices

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• You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Dying, Trying, Finding Happiness

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.76, Bantam

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• We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

  Jodi Picoult

  Queens, Men, People

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• My husband makes me stay totally quiet in movies because otherwise it's [five minutes in] and I go, "Oh, so-and-so did it," and he's like, "OK, I haven't even finished my popcorn and you ruined it for me."

  Nancy Grace

  Husband, Quiet, Minutes

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  People, Dying, Typical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

  James Wan

  Thinking, Intellectual, Climate

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• A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

  Elia Suleiman

  Opposites, Space, Psychology

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• Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.

  Lee Unkrich

  Responsibility, Sitting, Good Times

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• When you go watch "The Lord Of The Rings," you don't just buy a bag of popcorn, and go sit in the movie theater to watch where covetous people in our hearts deceive us, and then walk out the theater. That's the message that may be in that movie.

  LeCrae

  Heart, People, Bags

  "Lecrae Makes Music Concerned With The Soul". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.

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• The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

  Peter Travers

  Book, Hero, Comic

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• I think you kind of hope for people gush over movies, but I think the opposite is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

  Gabriel Mann

  Thinking, Talking, Opposites

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• I think I'm actually a mainstream, popcorn-eating kid. I've always been that, so I'd sit there watching action movies and American moves before I watch other movies quite often because I am that kid. But I've pushed into the more alternative area because that's where it gets really interesting creatively.

  Eddie Izzard

  Moving, Kids, Thinking

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• Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.

  Bruce Campbell

  Drama, Talking, People

  "WonderCon: Bruce Campbell Talks EVIL DEAD, Premiering at SXSW, His Planned Involvement in the Sequel, ARMY OF DARKNESS 2, and Upcoming Projects". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. March 31, 2013.

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• When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• These so called Popcorn movies, or family movies, actually provide something quite beautiful and something quite necessary, which is a family bonding experience.

  Nicolas Cage

  Beautiful, Family Bonding, Bonding

  "Nicolas Cage Interview BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Theatre, Firsts

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• Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, Roles, Sitting

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• I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

  Nick Hornby

  Plot, Credit, Scripts

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.34, Penguin

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• My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mother, Father, Coffee

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.

  James Patterson

  Running, Mean, Doe

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• When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Believe, Book, Reading

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