Movies Quotes

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

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

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.