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"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."

Hitchcock, Alfred on movies    Share


"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."

Cocteau, Jean on movies    Share

"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage."

Chaplin, Charlie on movies    Share

"Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it."

Brinkley, David on movies    Share

"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul."

Bergman, Ingrid on movies    Share

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Allen, Woody on movies
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"For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners."

Wilde, Oscar on models and modeling    Share

"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam."

Carson, Johnny on marriage    Share

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on marriage
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"I'm gonna do four or five of these movies, and it's going to become my career. I'll have to keep expanding the bat suit, because I get fatter every year. I'll be bankrupt. I'll be out opening shopping malls, going from appearance to appearance in a cheesy van. [On playing Batman]"

Keaton, Michael on movies    Share

"A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

Kubrick, Stanley on movies    Share

"I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a documentary."

Roberts, Julia on nudity    Share

"Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it."

Hitchcock, Alfred on movies    Share

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"

Brecht, Bertolt on mystery    Share

"A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

Welles, Orson on movies    Share

"It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time."

Travolta, John on movies    Share

"In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial."

Snipes, Wesley on movies    Share

"It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. [Explaining why the hero's woman must get shot]"

Seagal, Steven on movies    Share

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Rogers, Will on movies    Share

"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."

Reynolds, Burt on movies    Share

"I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making The Appaloosa a good movie."

McDermott, Dylan on movies    Share

"Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people."

Walters, Barbara on gossip    Share

"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't."

Wilson, Earl on gossip
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"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."

Winchell, Walter on gossip    Share

"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Allen, Woody on hollywood
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"If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple."

Bertolucci, Bernardo on hollywood    Share

"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."

Brando, Marlon on hollywood    Share

"To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony."

Burke, Billie on hollywood    Share

"If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it."

Burns, George on hollywood    Share

"Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves."

Shriner, Herb on gossip
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"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

Rogers, Will on gossip    Share

"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on famous last words
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"Go away...I'm alright."

Wells, H.G. on famous last words
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"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

Conrad, Joseph on gossip
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"Nobody's interested in sweetness and light."

Hopper, Hedda on gossip    Share

"A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself."

Kirk, Lisa on gossip
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"The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them."

Mencken, H. L. on gossip    Share

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

Rogers, Will on gossip
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"Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude."

Cain, Dean on hollywood    Share

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