Studios Quotes - Page 9

• In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

  Bill Paxton

  Careers, Up To You, Old Days

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• I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

  Ava Gardner

  Taken, Lazy, Acting

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• I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

  Patsy Kelly

  Night, Paychecks, Ashamed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Scripts, Comedy

  "All about my father" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

  John Mayer

  Character, Home, Interesting

  "John Mayer talks life on the road, latest album". Interview with Jessi Savino, 2007.

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• I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

  Laura Dern

  Stars, Office, Hollywood

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• I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one would want to marry me and she thought that was the most important thing. And she thought that it would affect my personal relations. And she said how worried she was that people would take advantage of me or I would meet the wrong people. When I was made head of the studio, one of her first things was, "Well, now no one will marry you. I hope you'll be happy, whatever."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  Kevin Spacey

  Advancement, Shifting, Sand

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• I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

  Meg Ryan

  Fighting, Thinking, Think Big

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• Unfortunately, the business is such that, as far as studios are concerned, they judge one quote-unquote black movie on how other ‘black’ movies have done, even if they have nothing to do with each other  It’s too bad we can’t do well on our own merit when it comes to the studios. They don’t like to take risks and, unfortunately, we’re still considered a huge risk, even though I don’t think we are.

  Taye Diggs

  Thinking, Judging, Risk

  "Black Actors’ Roles Are No Longer ‘Just The Black Best Friend Or The Crackhead’" by Danielle Cadet, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2014.

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• I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.'

  Gregory Peck

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

  Andrew Stanton

  Independent, Want, Able

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• I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

  Ursula Andress

  Rebel, Scared, Contracts

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

  Scott Bakula

  Hurt, Creativity, Thinking

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• Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Stage, Exciting

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• I was scared every time I put on a uniform and stepped on the field. I’m scared every day I go into the studio and I come on stage because I fear that I will not live up to what is expected. I fear that somebody who spent a lot of money to come into our studio, to come to New York and they’ll walk away and go, ‘I could have stayed at home.’ I feared that as a player a fan would come to the stands and I wouldn’t perform well. Just the way I’m built. I’m more scared of failure than I am excited about the accolades that come with success.

  Michael Strahan

  New York, Home, Player

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• I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

  Eli Wallach

  Actors, Members, Originals

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

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• Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.

  William Katt

  Rip, Dollars, Audience

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• I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

  Blake Shelton

  Cute, Girl, Moving

  "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

  Abbie Cornish

  Littles, Laptops, Recording Studio

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• A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Zumba, Work Out

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• The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.

  Buster Keaton

  Cutting, Two, Tears

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

  Faye Dunaway

  Stars, War, Independent

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• In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!

  Lizzie Brochere

  Doe, Crafts, Littles

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• Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?

  Jack Palance

  Jobs, War, Air

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