Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"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"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword!"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"I like Bill a lot. As Bill is presented, I mean, you don't ever see Bill blow her head off? You know? And I think what Quentin has done is he created a monster"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"I was always attracted to science fiction movies"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"Film spectators are quiet vampires"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Charlie Chaplin

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

Miley Cyrus

"You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"Pain is temporary, film is forever"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

Michael J. Fox

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

Alfred Hitchcock

"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

Alfred Hitchcock

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

Alfred Hitchcock

"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

Jimmy Smits

"I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

Lisa Bonet

"It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people"

Antonio Banderas, Actor

Antonio Banderas

"I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head"

Antonio Banderas, Actor

Antonio Banderas

"I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things"

Antonio Banderas, Actor

Antonio Banderas

"My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

Clint Eastwood

"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them"

Trishelle Cannatella, Celebrity

Trishelle Cannatella

"I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor"

Julia Roberts, Actress

Julia Roberts

"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross"

Megan Fox, Actress

"I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality"

Spencer Tracy, Actor

Spencer Tracy

"You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

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