Movies Quotes

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

I was made for action movies.

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

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

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.

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.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.