Movie Quotes

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.