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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.

~ Victoria Pendleton

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

~ Clive Thompson

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

~ Joy Page

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

~ Roman Polanski

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

~ Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

~ Andy Warhol

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

~ Quentin Tarantino

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

~ Bill Skarsgard

You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

~ Hans Zimmer

Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.

~ G. W. Bailey

Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

~ O'shea Jackson

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

~ Lana Parrilla

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

~ Denis Leary

I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?'

~ A. J. Bowen

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

~ Ben Affleck

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

~ Douglas Sirk

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.

~ James Stewart

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

~ Björk

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

~ J. D. Salinger

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

~ David Fincher

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

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

~ Ben Affleck

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

~ Rob Zombie

Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

~ Justin Bartha

The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.

~ Peter Capaldi

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

~ Nicolas Cage

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

~ James Caan

When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.

~ Jose Andres

I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

~ Damien Chazelle

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

~ Bill Gates

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

~ Marilyn Monroe

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

~ Salman Rushdie

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

~ Jeff Bridges

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

~ Will Rogers

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

~ Sydney Pollack

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

~ Jason Isbell

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

~ Michael Caine

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

~ Monica Bellucci

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

~ Daniel Day-Lewis

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

~ Aaron Sorkin