882 private quotes tagged movies

“When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.” — Vin Diesel

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“Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.” — Orlando Bloom

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“In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.” — Minnie Driver

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“If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.” — Greg Kinnear

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“I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.” — Rihanna

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“Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.” — Ang Lee

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“All my good movies, nobody sees.” — Chris Evans

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“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'” — Henry Louis Gates

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“I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.” — Emma Roberts

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“I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.” — Bill Nighy

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“I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.” — Jane Fonda

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“I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.” — Mindy Kaling

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“The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.” — Charlton Heston

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“Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.” — Robert Griffin III

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“I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.” — Jeremy Renner

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“Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.” — Jeff Bridges

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“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.” — Sydney Pollack

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“I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.” — Joe Rogan

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“People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.” — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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“The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?” — Orlando Bloom

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“For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.” — Kevin James

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“It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.” — Scarlett Johansson

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“Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.” — Jack Black

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“Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.” — Ginnifer Goodwin

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“Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.” — Michael Caine

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