Movie Quotes

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.

Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I would love to do a big studio movie, just because they're going to put the money into distributing it. A lot of times you do these little movies, you love them and they never get seen by anyone.

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'