Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written"

Dana Carvey, Comedian

"The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences, which is much more comfortable for me for some reason"

Ted Danson, Actor

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me"

Tim Burton, Director

"I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen"

Peter Sellers, Actor

"I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"I must stick with Chinese language films"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms, and large big scenes"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying"

Sherry Stringfield, Actress

"I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play, that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"The last three films I've done are about self-immolation"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"But people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback"

Catherine Bell, Model

"Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama"

Joan Collins, Actress

"I just finished Meet Joe Black with Hopkins"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good, and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"I'm not Ang Lee, who knows so much about Western market and the taste of Western audiences"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose"

Mike Royko, Writer

"Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"It's a first for me. It's my first nude scene!"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

"Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"My good films were independent and my bad films were not"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Film has to describe and show"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor', then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"I turned down some movies that were quite good. Mainly on the basis of taste"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

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