Movies Quotes
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In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.
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My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.
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I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.
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I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
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In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
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Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'
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I'm one of those weird people that tends to not do the extras and listen to the commentaries and stuff on movies, although I do think they are fascinating and interesting - I'm just so worried that years later I wouldn't remember anything!
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Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
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Movies and I just equally avoided each other at certain times in my life, you know?
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So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
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All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
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You're lucky if you're in three great movies, or even one great movie. I've been so lucky. But if you rely on the business to dictate whether you're happy, it gets really complicated. You just can't do that. There have been times in my life that I've done that, and I've found it depressing.
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I don't like movies that are morally simple.
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Whenever you anticipate something - like, "it's my highly anticipated whatever" - you are probably going to be disappointed. I wish we could all Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ourselves every time we went to the movies and not know anything about anyone.
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...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).
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There are a lot of action movies with very little comedy.
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You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.
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People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.
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Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.
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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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Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.
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In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
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I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
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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.
