Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I'd like to win an Oscar"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

Vanessa Hudgens

"Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up"

Tyler Perry, Actor

Tyler Perry

"I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not"

Tyler Perry, Actor

Tyler Perry

"I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

Vanessa Hudgens

"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies"

Steve Martin, Comedian

Steve Martin

"Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

Clint Eastwood

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that"

James Dean, Actor

James Dean

"But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds"

James Dean, Actor

James Dean

"I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary"

Julia Roberts, Actress

Julia Roberts

"I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6"

Loretta Young, Actress

Loretta Young

"A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school"

Eva Green, Actress

Eva Green

"They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts it into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just guys"

Julia Roberts, Actress

Julia Roberts

"Well, it was actually, - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports, sort of, were bandied about, that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

Monica Lewinsky

"I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before"

Julia Roberts, Actress

Julia Roberts

"They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys"

Julia Roberts, Actress

Julia Roberts

"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies"

Julia Roberts, Actress

Julia Roberts

"My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked, I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time"

Eva Green, Actress

Eva Green

"I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me"

Eva Green, Actress

Eva Green

"Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

Charlie Sheen

"I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep!"

Megan Fox, Actress

"I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

Daniel Radcliffe

"I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend, and those films are the ones I'm proud of"

George Clooney, Actor

George Clooney

"When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

J. Michael Straczynski

"I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film"

George Clooney, Actor

George Clooney

"The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering.' - come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer"

George Clooney, Actor

George Clooney

"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number"

Patrick McGoohan, Actor

Patrick McGoohan

"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"You can lose in cinema, too, if you don't put on a good performance"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

Eric Cantona

"In football you have an adversary; in cinema, that adversary is yourself"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

Eric Cantona

"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"A good opening and a good ending make for a good film, provide they come close together"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

Katharine Hepburn

"I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun!"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

Alexandra Paul

"When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful"

Francois Truffaut, Director

Francois Truffaut

"Is the cinema more important than life?"

Francois Truffaut, Director

Francois Truffaut

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