Cinema Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About The Cinema:
The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it
~ Sophia Loren.
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
~ Goldie Hawn.
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
~ Jack Nicholson.
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
~ Jack Nicholson.
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
~ Jack Nicholson.
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
~ Jack Nicholson.
I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
~ Kate Winslet.
If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.
~ Norman McLaren.
If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.
~ Jack Nicholson.
I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
~ Jack Nicholson.
There's no thief like a bad movie.
~ Sam Ewing.
Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office.
~ Mae West.
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
~ Jack Nicholson.
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
~ Walt Disney.
What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
~ Denis Leary.
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
~ Agnes Repplier.
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
~ Jack Nicholson.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?
~ Samuel Goldwyn.
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
~ Lillian Gish.
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
~ David Duchovny.
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