Movie Quotes
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When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.
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Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
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I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.
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I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.
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I'd like to be a superhero or a supervillain in a huge action movie. I want to play, like, the Joker or something like that.
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The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.
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Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.
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I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.
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I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'
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I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.
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I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.
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I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.
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A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
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It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
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I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
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I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
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Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.
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The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
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The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
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I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.
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I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler movie where he dresses up as his twin sister - well, I don't want to make people feel bad for how they feel about things. I'm always courteous, not mean.
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I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.
