Movies Quotes

• I've been doing this journey in acting and singing since I was six years old, and I definitely think this will take me to the next level - in movies.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Singing
  • Journey
  • Level

• Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • House
  • Families
  • Miss

• The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Air
  • Movies
  • Actors

• I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Money
  • Proud
  • Enemy

• With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Saying
  • Director
  • Watching

• The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Human Nature
  • Point Of View
  • Motivates

• Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I was made for action movies.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Action
  • Movies

• In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Guy
  • Culture

• When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Movies
  • Roles
  • Pattern

• Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, but those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-down version of reality.

  

  Brett Morgen
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• I don't intentionally make deep movies.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Movies
  • Intentionally

• When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Worry
  • Bored
  • Performance

• And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Kill
  • Dumbass

• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Money
  • Power
  • Revenge

• I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Show

• How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Experience
  • Devices

• When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Awesome
  • Performance
  • Direction

• Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Canvas
  • Symphony
  • Brush

• When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Light
  • Film
  • Pictures

• I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

  

  Michael Beck Die Fantastischen Vier
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Idea

• I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.

  

  George Chakiris
  • People
  • Actors
  • Experienced

• The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Comedy
  • Romantic
  • Infatuation

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