Movie Quotes

It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

Ten years before 'Matrix', ten years before 'Crouching Tiger' - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

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.