Life Quotes

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

~ Stephen King

There's more to life than movies.

~ Paul Walker

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

~ Keira Knightley

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

~ Pedro Almodóvar

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

~ Samuel L. Jackson

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

~ Chris Tucker

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

~ Paul Thomas Anderson

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

~ Alan Dershowitz

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

~ Juliette Binoche

I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

~ Kajol

I graduated from public high school. I went to the prom. I did it all. But I also worked on 30-million dollar movies with roller coasters and Michelle Pfeiffer. It's been a very interesting and blessed life for sure.

~ Ryan Merriman

I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.

~ Jon Favreau

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

~ Johnny Depp

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?

~ Richard Corliss

I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.

~ Rose Kennedy

My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.

~ Jeff Bridges

Spider-Man has always been a huge part of my life. I love the movies. I love the comics. And I always just wanted to be Spider-Man.

~ Tom Holland

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

~ Marilyn Manson

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

~ Martin Scorsese

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

~ Meryl Streep

If you're strutting around Beverly Hills and hitting up these big industry parties every night when you're not making movies, then it's going to eventually consume you. But for me, I live most of my life in Boston. I do things no different from the way my buddies back home do them, except when I go to work, I go to a film set.

~ Chris Evans

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

~ Quentin Tarantino

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

~ Jennifer Lopez

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

~ Daniel Craig

I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

~ Virat Kohli

The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.

~ Mike Nichols

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

~ Erin Heatherton

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

~ Jonah Hill

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

~ John Boyega

I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

~ Maddie Ziegler

I can't really remember my life without movies.

~ Elle Fanning

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

~ Frank Miller

Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'

~ Kim Dotcom

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

~ Holly Black

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.

~ Jonas Mekas

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

~ Mary Schmich

I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.

~ Jovan Adepo

I grew up with two sisters, and we owned three movies: 'Grease,' 'It's a Wonderful Life,' and 'Grease 2.' And you can only watch 'Wonderful Life' in the last half of the year. So I don't remember a time when I didn't know 'Grease.'

~ Thomas Kail