Movie Quotes

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

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

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

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.

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.