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

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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."

Gabrielle Reece, American Athlete

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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

Steven Spielberg, American Director

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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

Jason Patric, American Actor

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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

Mark Hamill, American Actor

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"There's not a lot of good movies being made."

Sean Penn, American Actor

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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

Mary McCarthy, American Author

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"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."

John Dos Passos, American Novelist

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"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."

Robert Patrick, American Actor

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"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."

Rosie Perez, American Actress

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"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

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"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."

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

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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

"There's not a lot of good movies being made."

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."

"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."

"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."

"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

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"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."

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

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

"I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face."

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

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

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

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

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

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