Movie Quotes

You take somebody that cries their goddamn eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
J. D. Salinger

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
Jack Black

But he's got vision, and he's got tremendous ambition. He wants to make the greatest film ever made.
Jack Black

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
Alan Rickman

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
Alan Rickman

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
Jack Nicholson

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
Alexis Bledel

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
James Dean

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James Dean

It's getting ridiculously expensive to insure directors and officers.
Charles King

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
Jamie Foxx

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
Jared Leto

She's so heartbreaking in this movie. I don't think they make enough awards to give her.
Jared Leto

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Christopher Walken

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.
Christopher Walken

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
Christopher Walken

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Jean Anouilh

In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
Jeanne Moreau

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
Jennifer Lopez

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
Ben Affleck

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
Ben Stiller

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
Jerry B. Jenkins

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
Jerry Garcia

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Jet Li

I have never left my culture. It doesn't matter whether I film with Australian aborigines or in Antarctica.
Werner Herzog

At the end of the movie I gave Bob Newhart a headshot of mine with tape over the eyes. So that he'd remember, and be fond of the tape,
Will Ferrell

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
Dakota Fanning

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
John Cusack

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.
Mike Myers

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
Rob Zombie

The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.
Ron White

All I do is go to the movies.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
Dean Koontz

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find, that spark of originality that makes it different than the ones that come before.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Can you get halfway around the world? Can you do a walking trail of the movie?
Keanu Reeves