Penn Jillette Quotes
I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.
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I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
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I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
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The Postal is a ruthless, Mad TV-type thing. We sent out a DVD to the South Park producers, and they liked the movie so much that we can say now, "It's like South Park with real actors" on the trailers and posters.
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I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
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I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
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I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.
