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Movies Quotes
"I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me."
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"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."
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"When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything."
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"I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that."
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"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic."
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"Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies."
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"They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies."
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"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."
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"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."
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"What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire."
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"For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."
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"I like to look at the songs like they're little movies."
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"As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote."
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"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."
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"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
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"And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is."
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"I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent."
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"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures."
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"My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies."
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"You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all."
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"When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies."
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"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies."
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"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."
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"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."
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"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."
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"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."
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