Kirk Douglas Quotes

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

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• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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  • Remember
  • Night

• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

  

  Parker Posey
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  • Giving

• 'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

  

  Zach Galligan
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• Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

  

  Candice Accola
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• I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

  

  Tania Raymonde
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• One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
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  • Thought

• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
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• I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
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• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
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• The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
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• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• I think for Wes Anderson and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.

  

  Owen Wilson
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• It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.

  

  Patricia McBride
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• You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
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• Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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• My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.

  

  Derek Mears
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• I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

  

  Kirk Douglas
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