Movie quotes

“Aech-I’ve never seen The Shining. Is it really scary?
Sho-Uh, I had to watch it through my fingers.”
Lena Waithe - Aech
Philip Zhao - Sho

“This is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory. What he bought still belongs to the man who sold it. That's the real magic of the movies. And don't let anybody tell you different.”
Arliss Howard - Louis B. Mayer

“Marion Davies-Pops, this is Herman Mankiewicz, but we have to call him Mank.
William Randolph Hearst-Mankiewicz? Herman Mankiewicz. New York playwright and drama critic?
Herman Mankiewicz-Turned humble screenwriter, Mr. Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst-Why, no need to be humble, Mr. Mankiewicz. Pictures that talk are the future. They’re going...” (continue)(continue reading)
Amanda Seyfried - Marion Davies
Charles Dance - William Randolph Hearst
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz

John Houseman-All in all, it’s a bit of a jumble.
Herman Mankiewicz-Did you say “jumble” or “jungle”?
John Houseman-A hodgepodge of talky episodes. A collection of fragments that leap around in time, like Mexican jumping beans.
Herman Mankiewicz-Welcome to my mind, Old Sock.

Sam Troughton - John Houseman
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz

“Lara Jean-You may be the James Dean of this kind of stuff, but I've never had a boyfriend.
Peter-You have the references of an 80 year old woman.”
Lana Condor - Lara Jean
Noah Centineo - Peter

In movies love is always about the big moments. Grand speeches made in front of everyone, “marry me” written on the Jumbotron. But maybe love is actually about the moments when you think no one is watching.
Lana Condor - Lara Jean

“I’m choosing to make a film that’s fundamentally political, but not everything I do is political because I’m Black.”
John David Washington - Malcolm

“I've done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that 'Divergent' did.”
Johnny Simmons

“I think they've just forgotten how to make them. Everybody is so anti-violence these days.”

Peter Breck

“The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.”
Shawn Ashmore

“The economy stinks, bees are dying, and movies are pretty much all sequels now.”
Max Greenfield - Schmidt

“You know what’s weird? Donald Duck never wore pants. But whenever he’s getting out of the shower, he always puts a towel around his waist. I mean, what is that about?”
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing

“- Teresa: Why are you always filming stuff on that camera?
- Fourth Grade: Cause one day I wanna make movies. I have this one idea. It's about this baby. Like a... like a... like a super baby. It's called Strong Baby.
- Teresa: Nice, cool.
- Fourth Grade: He has, like, a little cape.”
Liana Perlich - Teresa
Ryder McLaughlin - Fourth Grade

“They have so many great horror movies made in the '80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.”
Maika Monroe

“Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.”
Randolph Scott

“Movies were the one thing that I loved my entire life. So I always knew that I wanted to get into acting - I just didn't know when.”
Henry Golding

“You do a lead in a series, you're kind of in a bubble of self-containment and almost not really present in the world at all. You're really a brand more than a human being.”
Stephen McHattie

“Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.”
Peter Lawford

“Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.”
Daisy Ridley

“Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.”
Matthew Goode

“Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.”
Eva Marie Saint

“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
Leslie Caron On Liz Taylor

“In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.”
Bill Skarsgård

“It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.”
Travis Fimmel

“It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women.”
Theo James