Film And Movie Quotes – Read What Celebrities Have To Say About Their Industry
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“Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.”
– Denis Waitley
“Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore.”
– Dennis Quaid
“Be your own hero, it’s cheaper than a movie ticket.”
– Doug Horton
“And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.”
– Douglas Sirk
“Everything makes me nervous – except making films.”
– Elizabeth Taylor
“Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don’t realize until you get there that you’re with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it’s open. You’re there together and the entire time they’re sitting there: “Where’s she going?….Why’d he do that?….Is he mad at her?” “I don’t know, let’s watch and find out together shall we?” You know who you are…You’re denying it right now: “I do not do that…Why is she saying that?….What’s she gonna say next?”"
– Ellen DeGeneres
“”Hello?..Oh, hi Tom. Ooh, I’ve been dying to see that movie…Mmm no, I just opened up some yogurt. I am in for the night….Not even later, it’s the kind with the fruit on the bottom. Thanks anyway. Have fun.” “Oh…Sorry I’m late…Traffic. Hm. Really? How you think I got here? Helicoptered in?”"
– Ellen DeGeneres
“Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.”
– Elvis Presley
“When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times…I learned very early in life that: “Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bed — without a song.” So I keep singing my song.”
– Elvis Presley
“When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.”
– Elvis Presley
“We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.”
– Eugene Kennedy
“The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all – that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open – has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?”
– Federico Fellini
“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”
– Federico Fellini
“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
– Francis Ford Coppola
“Film lovers are sick people.”
– Francois Truffaut
“The manner in which Americans ‘consume’ music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie-it’s consumed that way without any regard for how and why it’s made.”
– Frank Zappa
“Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.”
– Gene Wilder
“When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.”
– George Carlin
“If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball.”
– George Carlin
“The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.”
– George Lucas
“I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.”
– Glenda Jackson
“A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.”
– Graham Greene
“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you’re just fair game.”
– Greta Garbo
“From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.”
– Guy Finley
“Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, ‘Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?’ My answer is ‘Because I can.’ And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.”
– Halle Berry
“In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren’t too pleased with it. They didn’t like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.”
– Ingrid Bergman
“The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.”
– Irving Thalberg
“Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore, few people owned automobiles, so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.”
– Isaac Asimov
“Never judge a book by its movie.”
– J. W. Eagan
“Once you’ve been really “bad” in a movie, there’s a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.”
– Jack Nicholson
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