c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
— Stephen Hopkins
Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.
— Avi
May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
— Samuel Freeman Miller
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
— Akhil Sharma
Jewellery's not a big thing for me. The only thing I wear is a gold cross on a chain that I got for my 21st birthday. You have to take it off every day for filming, but that's the only time I'm not wearing it. You won't find me in rings, bracelets or earrings.
— Jonas Armstrong
In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.
— Jane Yolen
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
— Ron Ben-Israel
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
— Joy Page
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
— Daniel Handler
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
— John L. Phillips
The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'
— Emma McLaughlin
My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
— David Ulevitch
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
— Mary Antin
I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.
— Amy Weber
Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.
— Shawn Levy
If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.
— Sean Quinn
The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
— Tammy Blanchard
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.
— Toks Olagundoye
For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.
— Gene Siskel
I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.
— Jason Mitchell
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
— Art Buchwald
For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.
— Neil Jackson
My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife. 
— Stephanie Cutter
I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!
— Jonathan Banks
'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.
— Jeremih
Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.
— Benjamin Percy
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.
— Sarah Koenig
I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.
— Paulina Porizkova
I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died it was his 45th birthday. 
— Alan J. Heeger
I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!
— Kirsten Prout
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!
— Alfred Enoch
With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.
— Thayer David
I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50.
— Maria Conchita Alonso
Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.
— Michael Birch
Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
— Andrei Codrescu
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
— Otis Blackwell
Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
— Keith Thibodeaux
When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.
— David Henrie
My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go.
— Jonathan Keltz
It is really a great feeling to win a World Cup on your birthday.
— Nino Schurter
I grew up in Queens, and part of my birthday gift, always, was a Saturday matinee of whatever hit musical there was. When I was three, I saw 'Oliver!'.
— Lonny Price
Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.
— Lawrence Tierney
I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.
— Amanda Marshall
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.
— Sarah Wright
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
— Guy Johnson
I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.
— Renata Tebaldi
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
— Shoshannah Stern
I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.
— Mark Bridges
I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket.
— Louise Post
I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
— Ruth Warrick
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
— Orson Welles
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
— Walt Disney
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
— James Cameron
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
— Samuel Goldwyn
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
— Peter Jackson
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
— Quentin Tarantino
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
— Martin Scorsese
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.
— Christina Ricci
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
— Sylvester Stallone
Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.
— Jason Reitman
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
— Jean-Luc Godard
I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.
— Josh Zuckerman
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
— Roman Polanski
One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
— Victor LaValle
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
— Alfred Hitchcock
The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown.
— Virginia Postrel
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.
— Andy Warhol
My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
— Teddy Sears
I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
— Jean-Luc Godard
Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.
— Regina Brett
For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.
— Michelle Obama
I really love scary movies, so I'm all about Halloween.
— Normani Kordei
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.
— Gilbert Gottfried
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
— Marilyn Monroe
I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.
— Carrie Underwood
Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.
— Bethany Mota
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
— Mel Brooks
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
Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'
— Deepika Padukone
Film spectators are quiet vampires.
— Jim Morrison
I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.
— Grace Kelly
I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
— Ridley Scott
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
— Monica Bellucci
Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.
— David Fincher
I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.
— Wes Anderson
I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
— Steven Spielberg
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
— Quentin Tarantino
There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.
— Nat Wolff
My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
— Roger Ebert
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.
— Alan Moore
I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.
— Trevor Noah
I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're a bad person - if you're wealthy, if you've done well, oh, you must be bad. And frankly, winning the lottery doesn't change who you are; you're the same person inside. And I'm the same person I was as an 18-year-old who fell in love with Ann.
— Mitt Romney
I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
— Christopher Nolan
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
— Eric Schlosser
I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
— Yvonne Strahovski
The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling.
— Emraan Hashmi
I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.
— Sara Paxton
Horror movies are all about getting your attention you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise. 
— P. J. Soles
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
— Elvis Presley
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
— Quentin Tarantino
I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
— Zooey Deschanel
I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.
— George Harrison
Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.
— Alex Tizon
When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn't always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of 'Cinderella.' I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.
— Sara Ramirez
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.
— Marjane Satrapi
I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.
— Albert Brooks
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
— Alfred Hitchcock
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
— Andy Warhol
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
— Bette Davis
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
— Elizabeth Taylor
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty to interpret it his problem and to express it his dedication. 
— James Dean
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
— Mary Pickford
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
— Oliver Stone
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
— Stanley Kubrick
I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
— Audrey Hepburn
If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
— George Lucas
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
— George Lucas
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.
— George Lucas
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.
— Tim Burton
I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.
— Harvey Weinstein
People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.
— Harvey Weinstein
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
— Joe Dante
Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.
— Marilyn Manson
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
— Billy Joel
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
— S. E. Hinton
Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
— Eazy-E
I'm terrified of the supernatural things, which is why I'm very grateful that I don't see things like that. Because if I did see things of the paranormal persuasion, I don't think I'd be able to continue making scary movies.
— James Wan
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
— Quentin Tarantino
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
— Jonah Hill
My favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you're constantly discovering new things. It's not just genre movies, either, and it's not just about twists. I saw 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' four times in the theater before I realized it's a love story. I love that.
— Drew Goddard
When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
— Orlando Bloom
In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
— Warren Spector
The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.
— Eddie Murphy
I manage to hide in my movies.
— Liev Schreiber
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
— Esther Williams
The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
— Jason Statham
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
— Oliver Stone
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
— Roger Ebert
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
— Marc Andreessen
Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
— Liam Neeson
You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
— Sam Raimi
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
— Alice Cooper
In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.
— Bill Skarsgard
I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
— Eddie Redmayne
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
— Shailene Woodley
I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?'
— Evan Peters
In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.
— Amy Chua
I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.
— Jay Baruchel
You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.
— Hans Zimmer
I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.
— Polly Bergen
I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his.
— Drake
I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
— Axl Rose
My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy she likes big blockbusters. She loved that I did 'I Am Legend.' My passion for acting came with my passion for movies. 
— Alice Braga
Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
— G. W. Bailey
Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for.
— Elizabeth Gillies
'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
— John Cena
Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
— Boman Irani
I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day.
— Vir Das
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
— Jason Statham
I was very influenced by movies I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream. 
— Ralph Lauren
I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?
— Andy Warhol
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it. 
— bell hooks
When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
— Clint Eastwood
I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.
— Gina Prince-Bythewood
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
— Pico Iyer
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
— Maya Angelou
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
— Peter Jackson
We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self.
— Theo James
I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.
— Casey Neistat
I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.
— Sara Sampaio
The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
— D. B. Sweeney
Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.
— Walt Mossberg
'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.
— John Grant
Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.
— O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
— Elvis Presley
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
— Christopher Nolan
It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
— Ethan Hawke
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
— John Cusack
When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.
— Margot Robbie
Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.
— Edgar Ramirez
Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.
— Sebastian Stan
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
— George Lucas
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
— Steven Spielberg
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.
— Stephen Sondheim
I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
— Madeline Zima
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
— D. W. Griffith
In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.
— Mark Wahlberg
I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.
— Channing Tatum
People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
— Jon Favreau
I drove from Naples to the Amalfi coast in an Alpha Romeo 1969 Spider, which was lovely. There have been lots of movies made down there, and I felt a bit like James Bond - the driving is quite hairy. The locals have mopeds, but you wouldn't catch me on a bike on those roads. A tank would be safer!
— Paul Hollywood
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
— Salman Rushdie
Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.
— George Lucas
I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
— Dakota Fanning
It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
— Kareena Kapoor Khan
In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'
— Ashton Kutcher
When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
— Mahesh Babu
Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.
— Allison Anders
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
— Gene Kelly
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
— Donal Logue
Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
— John Wayne
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
— Carol Burnett
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
— Tim Burton
Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
— Saina Nehwal
Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
— A. R. Rahman
My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.
— Carol Burnett
Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
— Daniel Craig
I think a big part of marriage is not going anywhere on those days you feel you really want to. It's like in the Barrier Islands. If you want to stay together, don't leave. I think just culturally - in the media, in movies, in books - we're trained to divorce when that first blush of sexual longing starts to fade. That's just where marriage starts.
— Tony Earley
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
— Woody Allen
Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.
— Diane Kruger
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
— Marlee Matlin
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
— Peter Jackson
It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.
— Helen Mirren
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
— Lena Headey
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
— John Eldredge
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.
— Peter Jackson
100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?
— Peter Jackson
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
— James Franco
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
— Michael Caine
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
— Sam Peckinpah
One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.
— Steven Seagal
Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
— Dallas Roberts
As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.
— Amanda Donohoe
I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.
— Emma Stone
I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
— Dakota Johnson
I want to become a Hollywood film star. I genuinely would love to be in some movies.
— James Arthur
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
— Terence Stamp
I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
— Emma Stone
I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.
— Jennifer Lawrence
The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.
— Madhuri Dixit
I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
— Lana Parrilla
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
— Elvis Presley
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
— Alfred Hitchcock
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.
— Stephen King
I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
— Zooey Deschanel
America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.
— Steven Pinker
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.
— David Fincher
I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
— Adam Sandler
We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.
— Noomi Rapace
There's more to life than movies.
— Paul Walker
All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff. 
— Samuel L. Jackson
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
— Keira Knightley
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
— Keira Knightley
It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
— Jeremy Renner
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
— Tim Burton