Movie Quotes

This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.

'Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

The movie industry is very competitive, and if you're like me and you suffer from your own insecurities about whether or not you're any good, that can be troubling.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

Movie making is the slowest business on earth next to fossil manufacture.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.