Movies Quotes
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Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.
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There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
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I make movies. I'm not in politics.
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Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.
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I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.
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We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.
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We are probably one of the most licensed bands out there for movies and TV shows.
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Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.
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Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy element to it.
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I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!
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The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to take it down. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.
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I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.
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If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
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I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.
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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
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The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.
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I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.
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It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
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We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
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Love Actually is one of the cutest Christmas movies.