Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful"

Derek Luke, Actor

"There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"I acted my heart out"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"I never dreamed I would do Westerns"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but it's very well done"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects, but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"My favorite actor is Wallace Beery"

Don Johnson, Actor

"When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I play a huge variety of roles"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"I always approach comedy roles, pretending they aren't funny"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"I'm lucky; people write scripts for me"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I did important films when I was very young"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I've liked most of the films that I've been in, and those are the kinds of films I like to see"

Benicio Del Toro, Actor

"Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something!"

Famke Janssen, Actress

"Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that"

Famke Janssen, Actress

"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"The difficulty is capturing surprise on film"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out, and the second season's being prepared now"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"There are a lot of good actresses out there"

Benicio Del Toro, Actor

"Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong"

Ava Gardner, Actress

"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy"

Ben E. King, Musician

"We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

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