"I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff."

Movies, Idea, Act, Being

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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

Jason Statham, British Actor

Movies, People, Compliment

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Being, Choice

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Majority

"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

Jason Statham, British Actor

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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Movies, Decisions, Television

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Movies, Jazz, Writers

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Movies, Film, Responsibility

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

Christian Bale, Welsh Actor

Movies, Idea, Character

"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."

John Sayles, American Director

Movies, First

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Movies, Being, Reason

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"It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange."

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"And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after."

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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."

"The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star."

"I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew."

"And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart."

"I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid."

"One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more."

"Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it."

"It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange."

"And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after."

"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."