Cary Grant Quotes

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

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• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Movies
  • Got

• Low budget movies make lots of money.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Budget

• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Music
  • Me
  • Movies

• If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Memories
  • Movies
  • Dreams

• We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Caribbean

• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • Long
  • Together

• I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Different
  • Small

• Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Today
  • House
  • Alone

• People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Old

• It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Happy
  • Movies
  • Taught

• Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Today
  • Movies
  • See

• I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Movies

• The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Live
  • Respect
  • Movies

• Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Experience
  • Better
  • Movies

• No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
  • Me
  • Fashion

• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Thought

• Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Giving

• Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Acting

• The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Movies
  • Lifting
  • Good Thing