Movie Quotes

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

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.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I remember when I was a dancer and I had to do this performance and I was really nervous about it, and I happened at that moment to go see 'Flashdance.' I mean, it's silly, but I walked out of that movie going 'what a feeling!' I walked out with confidence.

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.