Movies Quotes

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something? What? Why? I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

~ Cassandra Clare

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.

~ Barbara Cartland

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.

~ John Kennedy Toole

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

Now is the time to ask yourself, what you believe.

~ Rob Macgregor

It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept drinking.

~ Charles Bukowski

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

~ Connie Willis

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

~ Emma Thompson

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

~ Jane Green

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

~ Ewan Mcgregor

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

~ Charles Bukowski

Lesson in life, kids. Life isn't like the movies, but you can sure as hell act like it is

~ Cherry_Cola_X

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

~ Daniel Handler

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great moulder of social conscience, The Movies. From all those movies that had begun to come out when Roosevelt we

~ James Jones

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left unexploited, if they are going to encourage anxious, ambitious actors, directors, writers and producers to continue their assault on the English language by reducing the vocabularies of their characters to half a dozen words, with one colorful but overused Anglo-Saxon verb and one unbeautiful Anglo-Saxon noun covering just about every situation, then I would like to suggest that they stop and think about this: making millions is not the whole ball game, fellows. Pride of workmanship is worth more. Artistry is worth more.

~ Gregory Peck

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

~ Emma Thompson

The problem with being a second-generation Californian is you're not objective about California itself. I think a lot of people come here for the comfort of it, or to reinvent themselves, and maybe creative people are natural searchers, searching for someplace to be. The lifestyle becomes very appealing--Clint Eastwood

~ Barbara Isenberg

Is it safe?

~ William Goldman

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

~ Pauline Kael

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

~ Emma Thompson

We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to cry but stopped every time Chris [Newman (assistant director)] yelled 'Action'. ... Babies smiled all afternoon. Buddhist babies. They didn't cry once. We, however, were all in tears by 5 p.m.

~ Emma Thompson

(On period costume posture coaching:)We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

~ Emma Thompson

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox from birth or dressing up a dog to look like a fox. Or hiring David Attenbrorough, who probably knows a few foxes well enough to ask a favour.

~ Emma Thompson

...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

~ Gregory Benford

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]. They do it twice more. 'Don't pant so much,' said Ang. Greg [Wise (playing Willoughby)], to his great credit, didn't scream.

~ Emma Thompson

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

~ Richard Curtis

Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema, shuffling along wrapped in a filthy shawl with her old claws crooked over a stick?Answer: The direct result of the American cinema acting upon a weak mind.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

~ Tod Goldberg

In movies, everyone is always surprised the door is unlocked.

~ Jac Jemc

You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Still, I think Hardy's the most likely person in this theater to be snapped up by the studios. But he can't act! Norman protested. Sure he can't act. Neither can Nelson Eddy, and he makes a living. But Eddy can sing. All right. So Hardy can't sing either. That makes him twice as attractive.

~ Anthony Boucher

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

~ Lewis Carroll

If you were to ask me what it's about, I guess I'd say that it's about how joy can seem like a distant, unreachable memory, when really it can be as close as the next park bench over--if only we have the courage.

~ Forevercotton

I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could translate over into reality, that I could make their world my world. I wanted so badly to run away from my life. But you can't bury yourself in other people's pages and scenes. You aren't David Copperfield or Tom Sawyer. Those love songs on the radio might speak to you, but they're not about you or the person you pine for. Life is not a John Hughes film.

~ Jason Diamond

We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes—so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Movies were movies, whether they were old or new. They always captivated me, pulled me into worlds where anything was possible. Worlds where there were adventures and surprises, and life was never dull.

~ Chelsea Sedoti