Movies Quotes

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.

Movies are different from real life.

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy.

Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.